Wichita Priest John B. Brungardt Appointed Sixth Bishop of the Dodge City Diocese, Roman Catholic of Dodge City, December 15, 2010

Wichita Priest John B. Brungardt Appointed Sixth Bishop of the Dodge City Diocese

Roman Catholic of Dodge City
December 15, 2010

http://www.dcdiocese.org/bishop-elect-john-b-brungardt

[press conference at 11 a.m.]

Pope Benedict XVI announced today the appointment of the Reverend John B. Brungardt of Wichita as the sixth Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City, KS.

Bishop-elect Brungardt is currently administrator of St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in St. Mark, KS., and Chancellor of the Catholic Diocese of Wichita. He will succeed Bishop Ronald M. Gilmore, who has served the Dodge City diocese since July, 1998. Bishop Gilmore plans to retire.

“I am humbled by Pope Benedict XVI’s appointment of me as the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City. With trust in God, I hope to be a good shepherd to the people of southwest Kansas, from Odin to Elkhart, from Tribune to Kiowa,” Bishop-elect Brungardt said this morning in a press conference at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Dodge City. “Building on the foundation of Bishop Gilmore and his predecessors, the priests, religious, and laity, I hope to carry on the mission of spreading the Gospel message of Jesus Christ to the people of the diocese.”