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Bevard was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands on July 7, 2008, by Pope Benedict XVI. Bevard was consecrated on September 3 2008 in Charlotte Amelie at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul by Archbishop Donald Wuerl. The principal co-consecrators were Archbishop Joseph Kurtz and Bishop Daniel Edward Thomas. [1]
The Diocesan Consulters of the Diocese of St. Thomas unanimously elected Thomas to serve as Diocesan Administrator, a post he filled from August 11, 1992, until he was named as the Third Bishop of the Virgin Islands on October 30, 1993. He was consecrated and installed at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Saint Thomas on December 12 ...
Jerome Feudjio (born September 30, 1955) is a Cameroonian-born prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands since 2021. Biography
By 1733, the present day US and British Virgin Islands were a colony of Denmark, but were under the Catholic jurisdiction of the Diocese of San Juan in Puerto Rico, a Spanish colony. The first catholic church in the Virgin Islands was Holy Cross Catholic Church in Christiansted on the island of St. Croix, opening in 1755. [1]
After graduating, Scantlebury then moved to the US Virgin Islands to teach religious education at the Catholic school of St Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Thomas. [1] He then entered priestly formation, and attended Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Emmitsburg, Maryland. [2] In 1999, he obtained the Master of Art in Sacred Scripture from Mount St. Mary ...
George Vance Murry, S.J. (December 28, 1948 – June 5, 2020) [1] was an American prelate of the Catholic Church and member of the Society of Jesus.He served as bishop of the Diocese of Youngstown from 2007 to 2020.
In the Catholic Church, a consecrated virgin is a virgin woman who has been consecrated by the church as a bride of Christ. Consecrated virgins are consecrated by the diocesan bishop according to the approved liturgical rite, are required to maintain perpetual virginity because they are espoused to Christ, [ 1 ] and are dedicated to the service ...
This is a list of colleges and universities in the United States Virgin Islands. This list also includes other educational institutions providing higher education , meaning tertiary, quaternary , and in some cases, post-secondary education.