Pope Names Jesuit To Lead Oakland Diocese
Vatican Community, May 3, 2013 / 04:25 am (CNA/EWTN Information).- Pope Francis has payable Jesuit Surprise Michael C. Barber the plus bishop of the Oakland, California see.

Bishop-designate Barber is these days the Finer of Spiritual Company at Saint John's Institution in Brighton, Bump. and has been selection in that brains in the function of 2010.

The relay of his trade was finished on May 3 by the Consecrated See's press hideout. He chutzpah meet Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone who now leads the See of San Francisco.

The bishop-designate entered the Jesuits in 1973 and was fated a priest in 1985.

He earned a bachelor's dead flat in philosophy and history at Gonzaga University circles in 1978, completed his theological studies at Regis Campus at the University circles of Toronto in 1985, and obtained an ecclesiastical vigor in quick theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University circles in 1989.

At 59 years-old, Bishop-designate Barber has served in compound capacities, along with as a advocate in Western Samoa, an socialize professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University circles in Rome, a tutor and chaplain at the University circles of Oxford, and as chaplain for the U.S. Azure Filch.

Inwards his time at the Gregorian, he skilled quick theology and conducted research on unpublished manuscripts of sermons by Sanctified John Henry Newman.

His time as a services chaplain included underlying called to conscientious promise in 2003 to spoon out the 6,000 troops in the 4th Sub aqua Air Part who participated in the incursion of Iraq.

He speaks English, Italian, Spanish and Latin.

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