His Excellency, The Most Reverend Joseph Robert Binzer |
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Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati Titular Bishop of Subbar |
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The Most Reverend Joseph R. Binzer in 2012.
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Archdiocese | Cincinnati |
Appointed | April 6, 2011 |
Installed | June 9, 2011 |
Other posts | Titular Bishop of Subbar |
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Ordination | June 4, 1994 by Daniel Edward Pilarczyk |
Consecration | June 9, 2011 by Dennis Marion Schnurr, Daniel Edward Pilarczyk, and Robert Daniel Conlon |
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Cincinnati, Ohio |
April 26, 1955
Motto | HOPE IN THE LORD |
Styles of Joseph Robert Binzer |
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Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
Joseph Robert Binzer (born April 26, 1955) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio since April 6, 2011.
Joseph Binzer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of seven children of Robert and Joan (née Metz) Binzer. He received his early education at St. Ann School in Groesbeck, and graduated from La Salle High School in 1973. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business with a major in accountancy from Miami University in 1977. He then worked for eleven years as a Certified Public Accountant with Crowe, Chizek & Co. in South Bend, Indiana, and with Arthur Young & Co. in Cincinnati.
In 1988, Binzer began his studies for the priesthood by entering Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West in Cincinnati. He earned a Master of Divinity degree in 1994. On June 4, 1994, he was ordained a priest by Archbishop Daniel Edward Pilarczyk at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains.
His first assignment was as a parochial vicar at St. Dominic Church in Delhi, where he remained for three years. He then continued his studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he obtained a Licentiate of Canon Law in 1999.