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Pope Francis appointed Williams as an auxiliary bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis on December 10, 2021. [2] [1] [10] On January 25, 2022, Williams was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop Bernard Hebda at the Cathedral of Saint Paul, with Bishops Richard Pates and Andrew H. Cozzens acting as co-consecrators. [3]
In 2016, Bishop Farrell was named prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life in Rome. [26] Pope Francis in 2016 named Bishop Edward J. Burns from the Diocese of Juneau as Farrell's replacement. [27] Gregory Kelly was named auxiliary bishop that same year.
Each color on the map represents an ecclesiastical province. The divisions in each province show the archdiocese and its individual dioceses. The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, including Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Pope Francis forcibly removed a conservative Texas bishop who had been a staunch critic of his progressive reforms of the Catholic Church.. The Vatican announced on Saturday 11 November that ...
Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan has been bishop of the diocese since 2013. Bishop Joseph A. Williams, auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, was named Coadjutor Bishop of Camden by Pope Francis on May 21, 2024. [3]
Pope Francis appointed Kelly as an auxiliary bishop of Dallas on December 16, 2015. [4] [1] On February 11, 2016, Kelly was consecrated at the National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Dallas by Bishop Kevin Farrell, with Archbishop Michael Sheehan and Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel acting as co-consecrators.
On August 22, 1969, Pope Paul VI suppressed the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth, erecting the Diocese of Fort Worth and the Diocese of Dallas. [4] He named Auxiliary Bishop John Cassata of Dallas-Fort Worth as the first bishop of Fort Worth. [5] When Cassata became bishop, the Catholic population of the new diocese was 67,000. Cassata retired in 1981.
Before blessing the crowd, he asked those in St. Peter's Square to pray for his predecessor, "the bishop emeritus of Rome" Pope Benedict XVI, and for himself as the new "bishop of Rome". [170] Francis held his papal inauguration on 19 March 2013 in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. [18]