Year: 2017

Pictured Front Row (Left to Right): Evan Stone – Archdiocese of Louisville, KY, John Francis Marconi – Diocese of Little Rock, AR; Nick Zummo – Diocese of Springfield Cape, MO; Back Row (Left to Right): Father Zach Etienne – Diocese of Evansville, IN; Christopher Grief – Diocese of Owensboro, KY; Andrew Williams – Diocese of Mobile, AL; Tyler Huber – Archdiocese of Indianapolis, IN

Once again, we are blessed to host this year’s First-Year Pre-Theology students from Saint Meinrad School of Theology for three consecutive Wednesdays for their field education experience and introduction to parish life. Six class members visited Good Shepherd Catholic Church and School on Wednesday, November 11th.

Pope Francis has named Bishop Joseph Siegel, up until now Auxiliary Bishop of Joliet, as the new bishop of Evansville, Indiana.

The announcement was publicized in Washington on October 18 by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Bishop Siegel was named Auxiliary Bishop of Joliet, Illinois, by Pope Benedict XVI on October 28, 2009, and was ordained a bishop on January 19, 2010, by Bishop Peter Sartain.

He was born in Lockport Township on July 18, 1963, and is the youngest of nine children. He attended St. Meinrad Seminary, Indiana, where he completed his college education. He was then sent to the North American College in Rome (1984-1988), attending the Gregorian and Angelicum Universities.

Bishop Siegel was ordained a priest for the Joliet Diocese in 1988 and then completed his Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, Illinois.

Assignments after ordination include: associate pastor, St. Isidore Parish, Bloomingdale, Illinois, 1988-1994; associate pastor, St. Mary Immaculate Parish, Plainfield, Illinois, 1994-1998; parochial vicar, St. Mary Nativity Church, Joliet, Illinois, 1998-2000; parochial vicar, Cathedral of St. Raymond, Joliet, Illinois, 2000-2004; pastor, Visitation Parish, Elmhurst, Illinois, 2004-2009.
In July 2011, Bishop R. Daniel Conlon appointed Bishop Siegel as his Vicar General.

Bishop Siegel has served as a member and chairman of the Presbyteral Council and was appointed to the Diocesan Board of Consultors. He also served as director of Continuing Formation for Priests, a member of the Diocesan Vocation Board, the Priest Personnel Board and Dean of Eastern Will County.

At the Catholic Conference of Illinois, he served on the Executive Committee and was chairman of the Catholics for Life Department. He chaired the Steering Committee for the Joliet Diocesan Year of the Eucharist and Eucharistic Congress and has been a member of the Bishops’ Respect Life Advisory Board. He is a Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus and a member of the Knights of
the Holy Sepulchre.

The Diocese of Evansville, Indiana, comprises 5,010 square miles. It has a total population of 512,870 people of which 76,218, or 15 percent, are Catholic.

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Please use this link to access a high-quality audio-only version of the introductory press conference for Bishop-designate Joseph M. Siegel.

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