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Robert Barron (priest)

The Most Reverend
Robert Barron
Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles
Titular Bishop of Macriana
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Archdiocese Los Angeles
Appointed July 21, 2015
Installed September 8, 2015
Other posts Titular Bishop of Macriana
Orders
Ordination May 24, 1986
by Joseph Bernardin
Consecration September 8, 2015
by José Horacio Gómez
Joseph M. Sartoris
Blase J. Cupich
Personal details
Birth name Robert Emmet Barron
Born (1959-11-19) November 19, 1959 (age 57)
Chicago, Illinois
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Alma mater
Motto Non Nisi Te Domine
English: Nothing but you, Lord
Styles of
Robert Emmet Barron
Coat of arms of Robert E. Barron.svg
Reference style His Excellency
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Bishop

Robert Emmet Barron (born November 19, 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church, author, theologian and evangelist, known for his Word on Fire ministry. He serves as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, since 8 September 2015. Previously, he served as Rector of Mundelein Seminary in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.

Robert Emmet Barron was born on November 19, 1959, in Chicago. He spent his childhood first in Detroit, then in the Chicago suburb of Western Springs. His mother was a homemaker, and his father, who died in 1987, was a national sales manager for John Sexton & Company, a national food distributor. He has a sister and a brother, John Barron, who is the Sun-Times Media Group's publisher and senior vice-president of news and editorial operations.

Barron discovered Thomas Aquinas when he was a freshman in high school. He transferred to Benet Academy, a private Benedictine high school, where he graduated in 1978. He was ordained a priest on May 24, 1986 by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. He earned his M.A. at Catholic University of America, where he had won the Basselin Scholarship in philosophy and public speaking, with the thesis "Production and the Political Animal in the Writings of Karl Marx". He is a Doctor of Sacred Theology under the pontifical system from the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1992. His thesis was "Creation as Discipleship: A Study of the De potentia of Thomas Aquinas in Light of the Dogmatik of Paul Tillich", which was published by Edwin Mellen Press in 1993.


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