Pope Francis appoints Bishop Thomas Dowd to the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie in Canada. Bishop Thomas Dowd was born on September 11, 1970, in Lachine, Montreal. Before entering the seminary, he ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Pope Francis has appointed Reverend James Mark Beckman as Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, almost a year after the previous bishop resigned under pressurefollowing claims ...

Burlington has been without a bishop since last October, but not for much longer, after the Diocese of Burlington announced a Bishop-elect on Monday. Yahoo Sports ...

Burlington has been without a bishop since last October, but not for much longer, after the Diocese of Burlington announced a Bishop-elect on Monday. I was fired from a new job in less than a week ...

A look at the new members of the dicastery, which oversees matters of doctrinal orthodoxy throughout the global Catholic ...

POPE Francis appointed Melbourne priest Fr Joe Caddy as the eighth Bishop of Cairns in an announcement yesterday. Bishop-elect Caddy thanked Cairns diocesan administrator Fr Kerry Crowley, the clergy, ...

Pope Francis accepted Bishop Richard Stika’s resignation last June, closing a turbulent chapter for the southern U.S. diocese that was marked by a remarkable revolt by some of its priests.

Father Eliseo Napiere, pastor of St. James the Less Parish in the Diocese of San Bernardino, California, will take up a new ...

His Holiness Pope Francis has appointed Ghana's Rev. Fr. Francis Bomansaan as the new Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wa. The official notification was released by Rev. Monsignor Maher Chammas ...

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13, 2013.