OAKLAND (CA)
Catholic World Report
May 03, 2013
By Catherine Harmon
This morning the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has appointed Father Michael Barber, SJ the new bishop of Oakland, California. He succeeds Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who took over as head of the Archdiocese of San Francisco last October.
Father Barber currently serves as director of spiritual formation at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts. From Catholic News Agency:
The bishop-designate entered the Jesuits in 1973 and was ordained a priest in 1985.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and history at Gonzaga University in 1978, completed his theological studies at Regis College at the University of Toronto in 1985, and obtained an ecclesiastical license in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1989.
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