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By the Empress's persuasion, John was appointed Bishop of Piacenza, and he was sent to Constantinople to accompany home a Byzantine princess for the younger Otto. After Otto II's death, the youthful Otto III came to the aid of Pope John XV in 996, to put down the rebellion of a faction led by the rich and powerful Roman nobleman Crescentius the ...
Blase Cupich was born on March 19, 1949, in Omaha, Nebraska, into a family of Croatian descent, one of the nine children of Blase and Mary (née Mayhan) Cupich. [3] He attended Saint John Vianney Minor Seminary in Elkhorn, Nebraska, and then Archbishop Ryan High School in Omaha, Nebraska.
Ernest John Primeau, appointed Bishop of Manchester in 1959; Romeo Roy Blanchette, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Joliet in Illinois in 1965; Raymond James Vonesh, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Joliet in Illinois in 1968; Paul Casimir Marcinkus, appointed titular Archbishop in 1968; Thomas Joseph Murphy, appointed Bishop of Great Falls in 1978
When he was a child, his family moved to Alsip, Illinois. He attended Stony Creek Elementary School and Prairie Junior High School in that town. Casey then entered Marist High School in Chicago, where he started considering the priesthood. [1] [2] After graduating from Marist in 1985, Casey entered Niles College Seminary of Loyola University ...
The sexual abuse scandal in the Chicago archdiocese in the late 20th and early 21st century is a major chapter in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States and Ireland. A 2023 report by the Illinois Attorney General found that more than 450 Catholic clergy in Illinois abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950.
The Bishop of Chicago refers to one of the following religious leaders based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Catholic Church: Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago (Latin Church) Bishop of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago (Syro-Malabar Church)
His replacement in 2011 was Bishop Robert Conlon of the Diocese of Steubenville. Conlon took a medical leave in 2019 and then resigned the next year. Pope Francis in 2020 named Auxiliary Bishop Ronald Hicks of Chicago as the next bishop of Joliet in Illinois. As of 2023, Hicks is the current serving bishop of Joliet in Illinois. In 2024, the ...
Church of the Holy Family was founded in 1857 by Fr. Arnold Damen, SJ, at the behest of Bishop Anthony O'Regan.Damen wanted to build a large complex with multiple buildings to serve the needs of the local Catholic immigrants, but many were concerned about raising the funds for a grand church in the wake of the Panic of 1857.