Paul Stagg Coakley
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Paul Stagg Coakley |
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| Archbishop of Oklahoma City | |
Paul Stagg Coakley
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| Archdiocese | Oklahoma City |
| Appointed | December 16, 2010 |
| Installed | February 11, 2011 |
| Predecessor | Eusebius J. Beltran |
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| Ordination | May 21, 1983 by Eugene John Gerber |
| Consecration | December 28, 2004 by James Patrick Keleher, George Kinzie Fitzsimons, and Eugene John Gerber |
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June 3, 1955 Norfolk, Virginia |
| Previous post | Bishop of Salina, Kansas (2004-2010) |
| Motto | DUC IN ALTUM (Put Out Into The Deep) |
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Styles of Paul Stagg Coakley |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Archbishop |
Paul Stagg Coakley (born June 3, 1955) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the current archbishop of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.
Paul Coakley was born in Norfolk, Virginia, to John and Mary Coakley. His mother (d. March 10, 1988) was of French descent, while his father is of Irish descent. The second of three children, he has an older brother, John, and a younger sister, Mary Christina. At age 2, he and his family moved to Metairie, Louisiana, where Coakley attended St. Mary Magdalen School from 1960 to 1965. The family then moved to Overland Park, Kansas in 1965, and Coakley there attended Cherokee Elementary School for two years.
He attended Broadmoor Junior High School (1967–1970) and Shawnee Mission West High School (1970–1973) before studying at the University of Kansas, from where Coakley obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Classical Antiquities 1977. During this period, he was also a student in KU's Integrated Humanities Program. After graduating from KU, Coakley traveled in Europe and briefly considered a monastic vocation at the Abbey of Notre Dame de Fontgombault in France before returning to the United States, where he entered St. Pius X Seminary in Erlanger, Kentucky in 1978.
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