Gerald kicanas biography

Pope Accepts Resignation of Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson; Names Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger as Successor

WASHINGTON—Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, 76, from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tucson, Arizona. Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger, up until now Bishop of Salina, Kansas, has been named as the new bishop for the diocese.

The appointment was publicized in Washington on October 3 by Msgr. Walter Erbi, Chargé d'Affaires at the Apostolic Nunciature in the United States.

Bishop Weisenburger was born in Alton, Illinois on December 23, 1960. He pursued seminary studies at the American College Seminary at the Catholic University of Louvain in Leuven, Belgium where he earned a bachelor of Sacred Theology degree along with both a masters in Religious Studies in 1986 and Moral and Religious Science in 1987. 

Bishop Weisenburger was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City on December 19, 1987. He later earned his pontifical J.C.L. degree from the University of St. Paul in Ottawa, Canada (1992). Upon ret

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As of January 2024, Brother Jack Curran, FSC, Ph.D., KHS, returned to Bethlehem University in the Holy Land to serve as the Vice President for Advancement, a position in which he previously served for ten years (2003-2013). 

Brother Jack’s apostolic assignments have included teaching in elementary and secondary schools in New York City and Jamaica, West Indies; assisting families and young people as a social worker in Albany, NY as well as at Manhattan College in the Bronx; accompanying young men in their vocational discernment as a vocation director for his Province; and serving as a vice president in the administration of three Lasallian Catholic colleges and universities: Saint Mary’s College of California, Manhattan College, and Bethlehem University.

Brother Jack is known to be passionate in his desire to work collaboratively with his colleagues in support of their efforts to apply and integrate aspects of the distinctive Lasallian Catholic perspective with their areas of academic and professional expertise.  Together and by association with h

Gerald Frederick Kicanas

American Catholic bishop

His Excellency, The Most Reverend


Gerald Frederick Kicanas

Bishop Kicanas in 2013.

ChurchRoman Catholic
DioceseTucson
AppointedOctober 30, 2001
InstalledMarch 7, 2003
RetiredOctober 3, 2017
PredecessorManuel Moreno
SuccessorEdward Weisenburger
Previous post(s)
OrdinationApril 27, 1967
by John Patrick Cody
ConsecrationMarch 20, 1995
by Joseph Bernardin, Alfred Leo Abramowicz, and Timothy Joseph Lyne
Born

Gerald Frederick Kicanas


(1941-08-18) August 18, 1941 (age 83)

Chicago, Illinois

MottoLa justicia promueve la paz
(Justice begets peace)

Gerald Frederick Kicanas (born August 18, 1941) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Tucson in Arizona from 2002 to 2017. He served as the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Las Cruces in New Mexico from September 2018 to July 2019.

Biography

Early life

Gerald Kicanas was born on August 18, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois, t

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