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Chad William Zielinski (born September 8, 1964) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who is the fifth bishop of the Diocese of New Ulm in Minnesota. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Fairbanks in Alaska from 2014 to 2022.
Steven John Maekawa, O.P. (born 22 November 1967) is an American prelate and Dominican friar of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop for the Diocese of Fairbanks in Alaska since 2023. At the time of his appointment, he was serving as a priest in the Archdiocese of Anchorage–Juneau , where he was the pastor of Holy Family Old Cathedral .
Kaniecki died suddenly in 2000. In 2002, John Paul II appointed Reverend Donald Kettler of the Diocese of Sioux Falls as the first non-Jesuit bishop of Fairbanks. [4] Pope Benedict XVI appointed Kettler as bishop of the Diocese of St. Cloud in 2013 and replaced him in Alaska with Reverend Chad Zielinski from the Archdiocese for the Military ...
The Alaska missions continued to expand as more missionaries arrived in the region. In 1894, Pope Leo XIII erected the Prefecture Apostolic of Alaska in Juneau, taking all of Alaska from the Canadian Dioceses of Vancouver Island and New Westminster. [4] In 1916, Pope Benedict XV elevated the prefecture apostolic to a vicariate apostolic. [3]
Joseph Raphael John Crimont SJ (February 2, 1858 – May 20, 1945) was a French-born Catholic bishop and Jesuit missionary. He was the first Vicar Apostolic of Alaska (now the Diocese of Fairbanks ), serving from 1917 until his death in 1945.
Category: Roman Catholic bishops in Alaska. ... This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. A. Roman Catholic archbishops of Anchorage (3 P) F.
Andrew Eugene Bellisario CM (born December 19, 1956) is an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Anchorage-Juneau since 2020, as Bishop of Juneau from 2017 to 2019 and as apostolic administrator of the former Archdiocese of Anchorage for almost a year.
Pope Francis accepted Schwietz's resignation as archbishop of Anchorage on October 4, 2016. He was succeeded by Bishop Paul D. Etienne from the Diocese of Cheyenne. [11] On April 28, 2017, Schwietz was brought to Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage with complaints of chest pain, later diagnosed as a heart attack. [12]