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1 Biography  



1.1  Early life  





1.2  Priesthood  





1.3  Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles  





1.4  Bishop of WinonaRochester  





1.5  Internet  





1.6  Videos  





1.7  Television  





1.8  Radio/podcast  





1.9  Books  





1.10  DVDs  







2 Distinctions  



2.1  Orders  





2.2  Honorary academic awards  





2.3  Awards  







3 See also  





4 References  





5 External links  














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The Most Reverend


Robert Barron
Bishop of Winona–Rochester
Barron in 2022
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseWinona–Rochester
AppointedJune 2, 2022
InstalledJuly 29, 2022
PredecessorJohn M. Quinn
Orders
OrdinationMay 24, 1986
by Joseph Bernardin
ConsecrationSeptember 8, 2015
by José Horacio Gómez
Personal details
Born

Robert Emmet Barron


(1959-11-19) November 19, 1959 (age 64)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Previous post(s)

Alma mater
  • University of St. Mary of the Lake (STL)
  • Institut Catholique de Paris (STD)
  • Motto
    • Non nisi te Domine[2]
  • (English: Nothing but you, Lord)
  • Coat of armsRobert Barron's coat of arms

    Philosophy career
    AwardsList of awards
    EraContemporary philosophy
    RegionWestern philosophy
    SchoolThomism
    Nouvelle theologie
    Virtue ethics[3]

    Main interests

  • Ethics
  • Styles of
    Robert Emmet Barron
    Reference style
    Spoken styleYour Excellency
    Religious styleBishop

    Ordination history of
    Robert Barron

    History

    Priestly ordination

    Ordained byJoseph Bernardin
    DateMay 24, 1986
    PlaceHoly Name Cathedral, Chicago

    Episcopal consecration

    Principal consecratorJosé Horacio Gómez
    Co-consecratorsBlase J. Cupich, Joseph M. Sartoris
    DateSeptember 8, 2015
    PlaceCathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles

    Robert Emmet Barron (born November 19, 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022.[11] He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire, and was the host of Catholicism, a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS. He served as rector at Mundelein Seminary from 2012 to 2015 and as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2015 to 2022.

    Barron has published books, essays, and articles on theology and spirituality. He is a religion correspondent for NBC and has also appeared on Fox News, CNN, and EWTN. He has been informally called the "bishop of social media" and the "bishop of the Internet".[12][13]

    As of November 2022, Barron's regular YouTube videos have been viewed over 151 million times; he has over 3 million followers on Facebook, 399,000 on Instagram, and 254,000 on X.[14][15] In addition, he has been invited to speak about religion at the headquarters of Amazon, Facebook, and Google. He has keynoted several conferences and events over the world, including the 2016 World Youth Day and the 2015 World Meeting of Families.

    Barron's 2016 film series, Catholicism: The Pivotal Players,[16] was syndicated for national television in the United States.

    Biography[edit]

    Early life[edit]

    Robert Barron was born on November 19, 1959, in Chicago. He is of Irish descent. 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.[17][18] He has a sister, and a brother, John Barron, who is the Sun-Times Media Group's publisher.[19]

    Barron started reading the works of Thomas Aquinas when he was a freshman at Fenwick High School, a private Dominican high school.[20][21] He transferred to Benet Academy, a private Benedictine high school, where he graduated in 1977.[22]

    Barron attended the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, for a year before transferring to Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois. One year later, he was accepted as a Basselin Scholar at the School of Theology of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1981 and a Master of Philosophy degree in 1982; his master's thesis was on the political philosophyofKarl Marx. Barron earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from Mundelein Seminary in 1986.

    Priesthood[edit]

    Barron was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 24, 1986, by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.[23]

    After serving as an associate pastor of St. Paul of the Cross Catholic Parish in Park Ridge, Illinois, from 1986 to 1989, he was sent to France and earned a Doctor of Sacred Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1992. His dissertation was titled "Creation as Discipleship: A Study of the De potentia of Thomas Aquinas in Light of the Dogmatik of Paul Tillich".[24]

    In addition to his native English, Barron is fluent in French, Spanish, German, and Latin.[25][26] He is a proponent of Hans Urs von Balthasar's "dare we hope" theology, declaring there is "objective ground" for a "hope that all men may be saved".[27]

    From 1992 until 2015, Barron was a professor of systematic theology at University of St. Mary of the Lake, where he was also named the inaugural Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture in 2008.[28] He also served as president-rector from 2012 to 2015.

    Barron lectured extensively in the United States and internationally, including the Pontifical North American College and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. In 2000, Barron launched Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, a non-profit organization, that supports his evangelistic endeavors. Word on Fire programs, featuring Barron, have been broadcast regularly on WGN America, EWTN, Telecare, Relevant Radio and the Word on Fire YouTube channel. Barron's Word on Fire website offers daily blogs, articles, commentaries and over ten years of weekly sermon podcasts.

    In 2002, Barron was a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame[29] and at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in 2007. He was also twice scholar-in-residence at the Pontifical North American College, in 2007 and 2010.

    Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles[edit]

    Coat of arms as Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles

    On July 21, 2015, Pope Francis appointed Barron an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and titular bishop of Macriana in Mauritania.[1] Archbishop José Horacio Gomez noted that Barron's media talent and rapport with young people, as well as his outreach to other faiths would be good for the archdiocese.[30] Archbishop Cupich said he would be of great benefit to the archdiocese.[31]

    On September 8, 2015, Barron received his episcopal consecration at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels from Archbishop José H. Gomez.[32] That same month, Barron started a weekly podcast called The Word on Fire Show.

    Bishop of Winona–Rochester[edit]

    Bishop Barron in Minnesota in 2023

    On June 2, 2022, Pope Francis appointed Barron as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, in southern Minnesota.[33] His installation there took place on July 29, 2022, at the Co-Cathedral of St. John the EvangelistinRochester, Minnesota.

    Barron lectures extensively in the United States and internationally and he has published numerous books, essays and DVD programs. He is a frequent commentator for The Chicago Tribune, NBC Nightly News, Fox News Channel, Our Sunday Visitor, the Catholic Herald (London, UK) and The Catholic New World.

    Internet[edit]

    Barron's website hosts daily blog posts, weekly articles and video commentaries, and an audio archive of over 500 homilies. Barron has the following social media figures:

    Videos[edit]

    Barron has produced over 1,000 online video commentaries, which have attracted over 84 million views. His weekly productions include brief theological reviews of contemporary culture, including movies, books, music, and current events.

    Television[edit]

    Barron's videos are aired on CatholicTV, EWTN, Telecare, NET TV, and Salt + Light Television. He created a 10-part documentary, Catholicism, filmed in 16 countries, which aired on public television in the United States beginning in 2011. A sequel was released in September 2013, titled Catholicism: The New Evangelization.

    In October 2010, Barron premiered a half-hour television show, Word on Fire with Father Barron, on WGN America on Sundays.[38] Barron is the first priest since Archbishop Fulton Sheen in the 1950s to have a regular national program on a commercial television network.

    Radio/podcast[edit]

    Barron produces a weekly podcast on faith and culture titled The Word on Fire Show, which has been downloaded over ten million times. His weekly homilies and podcasts air on radio stations around the United States.

    Barron has appeared on other podcasts, including those of Jordan Peterson,[39] Lex Fridman,[40] and Ben Shapiro.[41]

    Books[edit]

    DVDs[edit]

    Distinctions[edit]

    Orders[edit]

    Honorary academic awards[edit]

    Awards[edit]

    See also[edit]

  • Catholic Church in the United States
  • Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
  • List of Catholic bishops of the United States
  • Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops
  • References[edit]

    1. ^ a b "Catholic Hierarchy - Macriana in Mauretania".
  • ^ This was, according to a legend, the answer of Saint Thomas Aquinas when asked by the Lord what reward he wished for his commendable theological teaching, cf. Bene scripsisti de me.
  • ^ a b Barron, Robert (June 21, 2018). "Bishop Barron on Pope Francis and Virtue Ethics". YouTube. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ Barron, Robert (October 16, 2019). "Bishop Barron at the Grave of C.S. Lewis". YouTube. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ Barron, Robert (September 24, 2016). "Word on Fire 035: Understanding Dante's "Divine Comedy"". Spotify. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ Barron, Robert (October 16, 2019). "Bishop Barron at the Grave of J.R.R. Tolkien". YouTube. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ Barron, Robert (June 11, 2019). "Bishop Barron on Pope Francis, Tradition, and John Henry Newman". YouTube. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ Barron, Robert (March 9, 2020). "Gnosticism, the Enduring Heresy". YouTube. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
  • ^ Barron, Robert (January 21, 2016). "Bishop Barron on René Girard". YouTube. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  • ^ Barron, Robert (October 3, 2019). "Bishop Barron on His Theological Path". YouTube. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ "Bishop Barron to lead Diocese of Winona-Rochester". La Crosse Tribune. June 2, 2022.
  • ^ Mastrangelo, Dominick (January 22, 2019). "'Bishop of the Internet': Backlash against Covington Catholic students 'literally, Satanic'". Washington Examiner. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ Hennessey, Matthew (November 29, 2018). "Opinion | The Bishop of Catholic Social Media". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  • ^ "Bishop Robert Barron (@bishopbarron) • Instagram photos and videos".
  • ^ "@bishopbarron" on Twitter
  • ^ Catholicism: The Pivotal Players
  • ^ Bertagnoli, Lisa (September 27, 2010). "Priest's pulpit: blogs, YouTube". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ "Obituary: John C. Barron". Chicago Tribune. May 7, 1987. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ "John Barron named Sun-Times Media Group Publisher". The Huffington Post. November 20, 2009. Archived from the original on November 21, 2009. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ Mixa, Robert (July 21, 2015). "Fr. Robert Barron named Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles". University of Saint Mary of the Lake. Archived from the original on June 25, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ Osuna, Traci (June 7, 2010). "Age Old Values Spread Through Modern Technology: An Interview with Father Robert Barron". Zenit News Agency. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ "Father Robert Barron '77 Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles". Benet Academy. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ "Bishop Robert Emmet Barron [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  • ^ Barron, Robert (1993). A study of the de potentia of Thomas Aquinas in light of the Dogmatik of Paul Tillich: creation as discipleship. Lewiston, NY: Mellen. ISBN 978-0-7734-2238-4.
  • ^ "Father Barron, Catholic Evangelist, named auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles". July 21, 2015. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  • ^ "LA says farewell as Bishop Barron takes up his new post in Minnesota". August 1, 2022. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  • ^ ""Dare We Hope?" FAQ page". Word on Fire.
  • ^ Murphy, Francesca Aran (September 24, 2015). The Oxford Handbook of Christology. OUP Oxford. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-19-106167-7.
  • ^ "Father Robert Barron - Curriculum Vitae". St.Paul Center for Biblical Theology. October 4, 2008. Archived from the original on January 31, 2016.
  • ^ Long-García, J. D. (July 22, 2015). "The story behind the new LA bishops' pectoral crosses". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ "Archbishop Cupich Congratulates Bishop-elect Robert Barron on his Appointment to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles" (Press release). Archdiocese of Chicago. July 21, 2015. Archived from the original on July 24, 2015.
  • ^ Long-García, J. D. (September 9, 2015). "Three new auxiliary bishops ordained for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles". Angelus News. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
  • ^ "Pope Francis appoints Bishop Barron to lead Minnesota diocese". National Catholic Register. June 2, 2022. Retrieved June 2, 2022.
  • ^ "Bishop Robert Barron". Facebook. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
  • ^ Barron, Robert. "Bishop Robert Barron". YouTube. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
  • ^ "Bishop Robert Barron (@bishopbarron) • Instagram photos and videos". www.instagram.com. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
  • ^ "Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron)". Twitter. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
  • ^ "Catholic Priest Father Robert Barron set to Launch Nationwide Television Program in October". PRWeb. September 13, 2010. Archived from the original on September 20, 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ "Christianity and the Modern World | Bishop Barron - Jordan B Peterson Podcast S4 (2022): E15". YouTube.
  • ^ "Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church | Lex Fridman Podcast #304". YouTube.
  • ^ "Bishop Robert Barron | the Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 31". YouTube.
  • ^ Barron, Robert. ""To Light a Fire on the Earth" by Bishop Robert Barron with John Allen, Jr". bishopbarronbooks.com. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  • ^ Barron, Robert. "New Book! "Arguing Religion: A Bishop Speaks at Facebook and Google"". bishopbarronbooks.com. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
  • ^ Barron, Robert. "Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis". order.sufferingchurchbook.com. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
  • ^ "The Installation of Bishop Robert Barron". Retrieved November 19, 2022.
  • ^ "Award Winners". Fisher's Net Awards. December 8, 2015. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
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    Preceded by

    John M. Quinn

    Bishop of Winona-Rochester
    July 29, 2022–present
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    Laurent Marie Bernard Dognin

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    September 8, 2015–July 29, 2022
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    Preceded by

    Dennis J. Lyle

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    John Kartje

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