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Pope Francis appointed Campbell as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Washington on March 8, 2017. [2] [1] On April 21, 2017, Campbell was consecrated as a bishop by Cardinal Wuerl at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, with Bishops Martin Holley and Barry Knestout serving as co-consecrators.
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.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States.Founded in 2001 after the merger of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic Conference (USCC), it is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic hierarchy (i.e., diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary bishops and the ...
Pope Francis appointed Esposito-Garcia as an auxiliary bishop of Washington on December 19, 2022. [2] On February 21, 2023, Esposito-Garcia was consecrated as a bishop at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington by Cardinal Wilton Gregory, with Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville and Auxiliary Bishop Roy Campbell acting as co-consecrators.
On October 31, 1983, Gregory was appointed by Pope John Paul II as an auxiliary bishop of Chicago and Titular bishop of Oliva. [7] Gregory received his episcopal consecration on December 13, 1983, from Bernardin, with Bishops Alfred Abramowicz and Nevin Hayes serving as co-consecrators .
Jun. 27—WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Sanford D. Bishop Jr., D-Ga., supported the adoption of H.R. 7666, the Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act, a bipartisan legislative ...
An archbishop leads it who is presently assisted by four auxiliary bishops. Its status as an "archdiocese" is merely honorary. In 1986, Pope John Paul II amended the juridical organization of military chaplaincies from "military vicariates" to "military ordinariates", [4] the head of which was likened to a diocesan bishop. The Ordinary of the ...
Publication was centralized by the Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1971 to avoid different rules in different places, which was derided as "geographical morality." [2] [1] The new rules resulted in "a storm of violent criticism" that the rules were inapplicable to a pluralistic society and beyond the scope of what the bishops should teach. [3]