Last Saturday’s announcement that Pope Leo XIV had promoted Diocese of Colorado Springs Bishop James Golka to fill the seat of archbishop of Denver was unexpected news for many Catholics. “His ...

The Priestly Society of St. Pius X, widely known as SSPX, has announced it will ordain bishops without papal permission on July 1, an act that would lead to the automatic excommunication of both the ...

A newly created Catholic diocese in China’s Hebei province ordained its first bishop, selected under the recently renewed but secretive Vatican-China agreement on bishop appointments, says a report.

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE HAS SEVEN NEW PRIESTS, following an ordination Mass on Saturday, July 5 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph. Diocesan Bishop Robert J. Brennan presided at ...

(RNS) — Pedro Bismarck Chau was ordained a Catholic auxiliary bishop in Newark this month. He is the second U.S. bishop to speak publicly about living in the country as an immigrant without legal ...

Bishop Simon Peter Engurait was ordained last week, making him the first African bishop in the mainland United States. On Sept. 5, Engurait was installed as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Wednesday denounced China for ordaining a bishop without papal consent, accusing the government-backed church of gravely damaging the faith, and warning that the bishop ...

The Diocese of Jefferson City will soon have a new bishop. A Solemn Vespers service, in preparation for the ordination and installation of the Most Rev. Ralph Bernard O'Donnell, 56, as the fifth ...

On May 29, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named then-Bishop Aquila as archbishop of Denver, succeeding Archbishop Charles Chaput. He was installed on July 18, 2012, at the Cathedral Basilica of the ...

Choi Kwang-hee, 48 years old, who was appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of the Seoul Archdiocese of the Catholic Church last July ...