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John Huston Ricard, S.S.J. (born February 29, 1940) is an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee from 1997 to 2011 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore from 1984 to 1997.
Pope Paul VI erected the Diocese of Pensacola–Tallahassee in 1975 with territories split off from the Diocese of St. Augustine. [13] [14] The pope named Auxiliary Bishop René Gracida of the Archdiocese of Miami as the first bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee. In 1983, Pope John Paul II selected Gracida to be bishop of the Diocese of Corpus Christi.
This is a list of notable former Catholic priests. Both religious and diocesan priests, and bishops, are included. Most persons on this list can fit into one of the following categories: Left the priesthood but remained Catholic (voluntary laicization) Left the priesthood and the Catholic Church altogether (voluntary laicization)
Symons served as bishop of the Diocese of Palm Beach in Florida from 1990 to 1998. Previously, he served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of St. Petersburg in Florida for several months in 1981, then was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee in Florida in October 1981.
On May 29, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Wack as diocesan bishop for the Diocese of Pensacola–Tallahassee. [4] [3] In an interview before his consecration, Wack said "all I ever wanted to be was a priest." [5] On August 22, 2017, Wack was consecrated by Archbishop Thomas Wenski, with Bishops Daniel R. Jenky and Joe S. Vásquez serving as co ...
the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, a special diocese for former Anglicans who have been received into the full communion of the Catholic Church [1] The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) consists of all active and retired bishops—diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary—in the fifty states, the District of ...
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, [174] [175] Academic who criticized the standards of 1950s Catholic education and was a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association. Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton , [ 176 ] Theologian.