BLAZON OF ARMS:
SHIELD: Parted per pale Or and Brown an open book Sable leaved Argent charged of a chi-rho Or the book irradiated of flames counterchanged of the field, on a chief wavy Azure a pair of wings elevated and joined en lure Or surmounted of a fleur-de-lis Argent.
SOURCE, NOTES & CREDITS: The illustration of arms (for background) is from the website of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, MN. Text is adapted from information also found
this website. We must give credit and thanks to John Gaylor for writing the blazon in aproper manner, Thanks John !
Bishop Robert Barron was ordained a priest in 1986 in the Archdiocese of Chicago and appointed to the theological faculty of Mundelein Seminary in 1992. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. He was twice scholar in residence at the Pontifical North American College at the Vatican.
He served as the Rector/President of Mundelein Seminary University of St. Mary of the Lake from 2012 until 2015. On July 21, 2015, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Barron to be Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He was ordained bishop on September 8, 2015. On Thursday, June 2, 2022, at noon Rome time, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Robert Barron the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester (Minnesota).
Bishop Barron received a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America in 1982 and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1992.
The reason he was selected to be represented here is that he is an acclaimed author, speaker, and theologian. He is also the founder of the global online media ministry “Word on Fire”, which reaches millions of people by utilizing the tools of new media to draw people into or back to the Catholic Faith. Francis Cardinal George has described him as “one of the Church’s best messengers.”
The artwork is an interpretation of John Hamilton Gaylor.
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