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Thomas Olmsted

The Most Reverend
Thomas James Olmsted
Bishop of Phoenix
Church Roman Catholic
Archdiocese Sante Fe
Diocese Phoenix
Appointed November 25, 2003
Installed December 20, 2003
Predecessor Thomas J. O'Brien
Orders
Ordination July 2, 1973
by Glennon P. Flavin
Consecration April 20, 1999
by Eugene J. Gerber, James Patrick Keleher, Fabian Bruskewitz
Personal details
Born (1947-01-21) January 21, 1947 (age 70)
Oketo, Kansas
Previous post Bishop of Wichita
Alma mater
Motto Jesus Caritas
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Thomas James Olmsted
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Reference style
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Bishop

Thomas James Olmsted (born January 21, 1947) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the fourth and current Bishop of Phoenix. He was Bishop of Wichita from 2001 to 2003.

Thomas James Olmsted was born in Oketo, Kansas, to Pat and Helen Olmsted; he has two brothers and three sisters. Raised on a farm in Beattie, he attended a single-room grade school and a small rural high school in Summerfield. He then studied at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Denver, Colorado, where he obtained a B.A. in Philosophy in 1969.

Olmsted was ordained to the priesthood on July 2, 1973, for the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska. He then served as an associate pastor at the Cathedral of the Risen Christ until 1976, when he began his doctoral studies in Rome.

Olmsted earned a doctorate in canon law summa cum laude from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1981, and served as an official in the Vatican Secretariat of State from 1979 to 1988. During his time in Rome, he was also an assistant spiritual director at the Pontifical North American College.


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