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David Kagan

His Excellency, The Most Reverend
David Dennis Kagan
Bishop of Bismarck
Archdiocese Saint Paul and Minneapolis
Diocese Bismarck
Appointed October 19, 2011
Installed November 30, 2011
Predecessor Paul Albert Zipfel
Orders
Ordination June 14, 1975
by Arthur Joseph O'Neill
Consecration November 30, 2011
by John Clayton Nienstedt, Paul Albert Zipfel, and Thomas G. Doran
Personal details
Born (1949-11-09) 9 November 1949 (age 67)
Waukegan, Illinois
Nationality American
Denomination Roman Catholic
Previous post Vicar general of the Diocese of Rockford
Motto NIHIL AMORI CHRISTI PRAEPONERE
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Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Bishop

David Dennis Kagan (born November 9, 1949) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the seventh and current bishop of Bismarck.

David Kagan was born in Waukegan, Illinois, and grew up in Spring Grove. He received the primary education at Saint Peter School in Spring Grove. He entered the Salvatorian Seminary in St Nazianz, and then studied philosophy at Loras College/St. Pius X Seminary in Dubuque, and Theology at the Pontifical North American College and Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He followed to obtain licenciate in Canon Law at the Gregoriana (1977–1979).

He was ordained priest on June 14, 1975 in the Diocese of Rockford. He served at the following assignments: parish vicar of Saint Patrick Parish in Dixon and teacher of religious education at Newman Central Catholic High School in Sterling (1975–1977); teacher of religious education at Boylan Catholic High School in Rockford, and vice-official of Diocesan Tribunal (1979–1984); judicial vicar (1984–1994); parish administrator of Saint Anne Parish in Warren and of Saint Joseph Parish at Apple River (1984–1985); chaplain at the Sisters of St Clare and parish vicar at St Peter's Cathedral in Rockford (1985–1986); pastor of Saint Mary Parish in Byron and teacher of ethics at Saint Anthony College of Nursing in Rockford (1986–1989); and pastor of the Proto-Cathedral of St James in Rockford (1990–1994).


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