Raymond Alphonse Lucker
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The Most Reverend Raymond Alphonse Lucker |
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| Bishop emeritus of New Ulm | |
| See | New Ulm |
| Installed | February 19, 1976 |
| Term ended | November 17, 2000 |
| Predecessor | Alphonse James Schladweiler |
| Successor | John Clayton Nienstedt |
| Other posts | Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis (1971-76) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | June 7, 1952 |
| Consecration | September 8, 1971 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 24, 1927 St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Died | September 19, 2001 (aged 74) St. Paul, Minnesota |
Raymond Alphonse Lucker (February 24, 1927—September 19, 2001) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of New Ulm from 1976 to 2000.
Raymond Lucker was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the third of six children of Alphonse J. and Josephine Theresa (née Schiltgen) Lucker. His father, a railroad worker, died in 1940 at age 42, the day before Raymond began the eighth grade. His mother (1899-1999), who was the daughter of a farmer, later married Joseph Stephen Mayer in 1948. He spent many of his childhood summers working on his grandparents' farm east of the Twin Cities.
He received his early education at the parochial school of Sacred Heart Church, and entered Nazareth Hall Preparatory Seminary in 1941. He then studied at St. Paul Seminary, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy (1948) and a Master of Arts degree in Church history (1952). He earned his master's degree with a thesis entitled: "Some Aspects of the Life of Thomas Langdon Grace, Second Bishop of St. Paul".
On June 7, 1952, Lucker was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop James J. Byrne at the Cathedral of St. Paul. His first assignment was as assistant director of the Archdiocese's Office of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. He served as assistant director until 1958, when he was named director of the office and professor of catechetics at St. Paul Seminary, serving in both positions until 1969.
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