Robert W. McElroy
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Robert Walter McElroy STD PhD STL D.D. |
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| Bishop of San Diego | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Diocese | San Diego |
| Appointed | March 23, 2015 |
| Installed | April 15, 2015 |
| Predecessor | Cirilo Flores |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | April 12, 1980 by John Raphael Quinn |
| Consecration | September 7, 2010 by George Hugh Niederauer, Archbishop of San Francisco, John R. Quinn, and John Charles Wester |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 5, 1954 San Francisco, California |
| Previous post | Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Pontifical Gregorian University Stanford University Graduate Theological Union |
| Motto | DIGNITATIS HUMANAE |
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Styles of Robert Walter McElroy |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
Robert Walter McElroy (born February 5, 1954) is a Roman Catholic prelate. From 2010 through 2015 he was auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, California. He became the Bishop of San Diego in 2015.
McElroy was born in San Francisco, California. He earned a A.B. in history from Harvard University in 1975 and an M.A. from Stanford in 1976. He then attended St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California, where he earned an STL degree in 1985 from the Jesuit School of Theology in the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, with a thesis entitled, Freedom for Faith: John Courtney Murray and the Constitutional Question, 1942-1954.
McElroy was ordained to the priesthood for the San Francisco Archdiocese on April 12, 1980. He was secretary to Archbishop John Quinn and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He was parochial vicar at St. Cecilia Church in San Francisco and St. Pius Church in Redwood City, California. He was pastor of St. Gregory Church in San Mateo, California from 1996–2011. He spent the last several months at St. Gregory as pastor and bishop. In 1986 he was awarded a doctorate in moral theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, with a dissertation entitled, John Courtney Murray and the Secular Crisis: Foundations for an American Catholic Public Theology, along with a PhD in political science from Stanford University in 1989 with a dissertation entitled, Morality and American Foreign Policy : The Role of Moral Norms in International Affairs.
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