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Pope Francis appointed Joensen as the tenth bishop of Des Moines on July 18, 2019. His episcopal ordination took place on September 27, 2019, at St. Francis of Assisi Church in West Des Moines, Iowa. [7] Archbishop Michael Jackels was the consecrator, with Bishop R. Walker Nickless and Bishop Thomas Zinkula as the co-consecrators. [4]
The new bishop of Des Moines was Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Charron from Saint Paul and Minneapolis, named by the pope in 1994. Charron retired in 2007. In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Auxiliary Bishop Richard Pates from Saint Paul and Minneapolis as the ninth bishop of Des Moines. [11] In 2010, the diocese was the victim of a cybercrime ...
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The Diocese of Davenport (Latin: Diœcesis Davenportensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, or diocese, of the Catholic Church for the southeastern quarter of the state of Iowa in the United States. The current bishop of Davenport is Dennis Gerard Walsh. The previous bishop, Thomas Zinkula, became Archbishop of Dubuque in 2023.
Rohlman, along with the other bishops in Iowa, re-established the Mount St. Bernard Seminary for the education of new priests in the province. The archdiocese built a $2.5 million home for the seminary in Dubuque. [33] On October 15, 1949, Pius XII named Bishop Leo Binz from the Diocese of
The Catholic population of the diocese was about 50,000. [1] The pope appointed Philip Garrigan, vice rector of the Catholic University of American in Washington, D.C., as the first bishop of the new diocese. [1] Garrigan designated the not yet completed St. Mary's Church in Sioux City as the Cathedral Church of the Diocese.
The number references the sequence of consecration. "Diocese" refers to the diocese over which the bishop presided or, if he did not preside, the diocese in which he served as coadjutor bishop or auxiliary bishop. The Roman numeral before the diocese name represents where in the sequence that bishop falls; e.g., the fourth bishop of ...
Upon his return to Iowa, he taught at St. Ambrose Academy in Davenport from 1940 until 1943, when he became assistant chancellor of the diocese and Bishop Henry Rohlman's secretary. Dingman earned a Licentiate of Canon Law from the Catholic University of America at Washington, DC, in 1946.