The Most Reverend Robert Barron |
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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 |
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Ordination | May 24, 1986 by Joseph Bernardin |
Consecration | September 8, 2015 by José Horacio Gómez Joseph M. Sartoris Blase J. Cupich |
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Birth name | Robert Emmet Barron |
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Chicago, Illinois |
November 19, 1959
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Motto |
Non Nisi Te Domine English: Nothing but you, Lord |
Styles of Robert Emmet Barron |
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Reference style | His Excellency |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
Ordination history of Robert Barron (bishop) | |
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Episcopal consecration
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Principal consecrator | José Horacio Gómez |
Date of consecration | September 8, 2015 |
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.