Chicago Breaking News
November 14, 2009
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/11/chicago-native-named-archbishop-of-milwaukee.html
A retired U.S. Army chaplain and native of Chicago's Southeast Side has been named archbishop of Milwaukee, the Roman Catholic archdiocese there said today.
Bishop Jerome Listecki of La Crosse, Wis., was named the 11th archbishop of the archdiocese by Pope Benedict XVI. A news release from the archdiocese says the Vatican announced the selection Saturday.
The 60-year-old Listecki will lead the archdiocese of some 675,000 parishioners and 211 churches. He succeeds Timothy Dolan, who was named archbishop of New York earlier this year.
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Listecki left Chicago to lead the La Crosse diocese in March 2005 after serving as an auxiliary bishop here beginning in 2001. He will be installed as Milwaukee's archbishop in January.
Listecki was named as an auxiliary bishop in 2000, only a week after he had been installed as pastor at St. Ignatius Parish in the Rogers Park neighborhood. In an unusual move, after he was elevated to bishop in 2001, he continued to serve as pastor for about a year.
During much of his time as an auxiliary bishop here, he presided over the area of the Chicago Archdiocese that includes the north and northwest suburbs, and also was involved in crafting U.S. bishops' response to priest abuse scandals.
Listecki graduated from the now-closed Quigley South High School in 1967 and Loyola University Chicago in 1971. He earned three theology degrees from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary.
In addition to being an expert in canon law, Listecki is a civil attorney who earned his law degree from DePaul University in 1975, the same year he was ordained as a priest.
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