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John Michael Bilock (June 20, 1916 – September 8, 1994) was a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the Auxiliary Bishop of Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh from 1973 to 1994.
The next bishop of Pittsburgh was Auxiliary Bishop Donald Wuerl from the Archdiocese of Seattle, appointed by John Paul II in 1988. [12] Despite the financial condition of the diocese, Wuerl decided to expand health services. Wuerl worked with hospitals and community groups to create a group home for people suffering from HIV/AIDS. In 2003 ...
David Allen Zubik (/ ˈ z uː b ɪ k / ZOO-bik; born September 4, 1949) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Pittsburgh since 2007. He previously served as Bishop of Green Bay from 2003 to 2007, and as Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh from 1997 to 2003.
Tuigg was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh on January 11, 1876. [3] On March 19, 1876, he was consecrated bishop of Pittsburgh by Archbishop James Frederick Bryan Wood. [2] Upon his accession he found that the Panic of 1873 had left the diocese's property and finances in disarray. Yet Tuigg extricated the diocese from its ...
After Bishop Wright was named to head the Congregation for the Clergy, Leonard was appointed the ninth bishop of Pittsburgh on June 1, 1969. [4] During his tenure, he became one of the first bishops in the United States to make his diocesan financial reports public, and established a due-process system to allow Catholics to appeal any ...
On November 14, 1967, Appleyard was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Pittsburgh on the second ballot during a special diocesan convention. He was consecrated bishop on February 10, 1968, by Presiding Bishop John E. Hines in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Paul since Trinity Cathedral could not be used due to fire damage from the previous summer. [2]
William Charles Skurla (born June 1, 1956, in Duluth, Minnesota, United States) is the Archeparch (or Archbishop) of the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh in the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church. He is also, ex officio, the metropolitan bishop of the Metropolis of Pittsburgh whose geographic remit includes the entire United States and Canada. [4]
Thomas was born on November 21, 1901, in Pittsburgh, the son of William S. Thomas Sr. and Lillian Amelia Evans.He was educated at the Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania between 1921 and 1922 and then at the University of Pittsburgh from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1924.