Anthony Taylor (bishop)
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Anthony Basil Taylor |
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| Bishop of Little Rock | |
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| Archdiocese | Oklahoma City |
| Diocese | Little Rock |
| Appointed | April 10, 2008 |
| Installed | June 5, 2008 |
| Predecessor | Archbishop James P. Sartain |
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| Ordination | August 2, 1980 |
| Consecration | June 5, 2008 by Eusebius J. Beltran, Edward James Slattery, and J. Peter Sartain |
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| Birth name | Anthony Basil Taylor |
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April 24, 1954 Fort Worth, Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Residence | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Parents | Basil and Rachel (Roth) Taylor |
| Motto | THE HUMBLE SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH |
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Styles of Anthony Basil Taylor |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
Anthony Basil Taylor (born 24 April 1954) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church serving as bishop of the Little Rock, Arkansas since 2008.
Taylor was born in Fort Worth, Texas on 24 April 1954. His parents and grandparents on both sides were long-time residents of Fort Worth. Two of his grandparents are converts (his mother's father from Judaism and his father's mother from Protestantism) and both of his parents, as well as the Taylor children themselves, were raised in Catholic homes.
Anthony Taylor is the oldest of the seven children of Basil and Rachel (Roth) Taylor; the five boys and two girls were born in a little over nine years. The Taylor family moved to Ponca City, Okla., in 1960, where Bishop Taylor's father and two of his siblings and their families still live—the other four live in Fort Worth. His mother died on April 26, 2016. Ponca City is on the Arkansas River in northern Oklahoma.
Taylor attended parochial and public schools, graduating from Ponca City, Oklahoma in 1972. He attended the University of Oklahoma for two years, after which he was accepted as a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. He attended St. Meinrad Seminary College in Indiana for two years, graduating with a bachelor's degree in history. From 1976 to 1980 he was trained for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome while studying theology at the Gregorian University.
Taylor was ordained a priest at St. Mary Parish in Ponca City, his home parish, on 2 August 1980 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He earned a Ph.D. in biblical theology in 1989 from Fordham University.
Taylor has been involved with Hispanic ministry from the start of his career. His first assignment was to Sacred Heart Parish, Oklahoma City, and within a month of ordination he had begun to celebrate mass in Spanish twice a month in Clinton and Hinton, Oklahoma. In 1982 he was transferred to western Oklahoma, where he lived at Queen of All Saints mission in Sayre until 1986 and served the Hispanic population in a five-county area, including ongoing ministry in Clinton and Hinton.
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