Robert Vasa
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Robert Francis Vasa |
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| Bishop of Santa Rosa | |
| Archdiocese | San Francisco |
| Diocese | Santa Rosa |
| Appointed | January 24, 2011 |
| Installed | June 30, 2011 |
| Predecessor | Daniel F. Walsh |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | May 22, 1976 by Glennon Patrick Flavin |
| Consecration | January 26, 2000 by John George Vlazny, Thomas Joseph Connolly, and Fabian Bruskewitz |
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| Born |
May 7, 1951 Lincoln, Nebraska |
| Previous post | Bishop of Baker |
| Motto | UNLESS A GRAIN OF WHEAT |
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Styles of Robert Francis Vasa |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
Robert Francis Vasa (born May 7, 1951) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. On Monday, January 24, 2011, Bishop Vasa, 59, was named the Coadjutor Bishop (an Auxiliary Bishop with the right of succession), to Bishop Daniel F. Walsh of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California, by Pope Benedict XVI. Until then, he had been the fifth Bishop of Baker, in Oregon, which with his new appointment became a vacant see (sede vacante).
On 30 June 2011, Bishop Daniel F. Walsh's resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI, and so Bishop Vasa officially succeeded him as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California immediately afterwards.
Robert F. Vasa was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Joe and Leona Vasa. From 1972 to 1976, he studied at Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas, Texas, from where he obtained a Master of Divinity degree.
He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Glennon Patrick Flavin on May 22, 1976. He then served as a curate at the Cathedral of the Risen Christ and a teacher at Pius X High School in Lincoln until 1977, when he became an advocate on the Diocesan Marriage Tribunal. In 1979, he was sent to further his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, earning a Licentiate of Canon Law in 1981.
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