His Excellency, The Most Reverend Mitchell Thomas Rozanski |
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Bishop of Springfield | |
Archdiocese | Boston |
Diocese | Springfield |
Appointed | June 19, 2014 |
Installed | August 12, 2014 |
Predecessor | Timothy A. McDonnell |
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Ordination | November 24, 1984 by William Donald Borders |
Consecration | August 24, 2004 by William Henry Keeler, William Clifford Newman, and William Francis Malooly |
Personal details | |
Born |
Baltimore, Maryland |
August 6, 1958
Nationality | American |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Motto | SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS |
Styles of Mitchell Thomas Rozanski |
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Reference style | |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
Mitchell Thomas Rozanski (born August 6, 1958) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church serving as the Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Mitchell Rozanski was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is of Polish descent and his surname means in Polish rose. He attended Sacred Heart of Mary School in Dundalk, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel High School in Essex, and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. before entering the Theological College at the Catholic University, where he received seminary training.
He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop William Borders on November 24, 1984.
His parish assignments included appointments at St. Michael Church in Overlea in 1984 and the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in 1985. He was appointed Associate Pastor at St. Anthony Church in Baltimore in 1985 and at St. Isaac Jogues Church in the same city in 1990. He was named administrator of Holy Cross Church and of St. Mary Star of the Sea Church in Baltimore in March 1993, before being appointed pastor there in the following October. In January 2000, he was appointed temporary administrator of Immaculate Conception Church in Towson and in June of that year he assumed the same duties for St. John the Evangelist Church in Severna Park, where he was named pastor on November 28, 2000.