Gregory Michael Aymond

Styles of Gregory Michael Aymond


Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	not applicable

Gregory Michael Aymond (born November 12, 1949) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the fourth and current Bishop of Austin.

[edit] Biography

Gregory Aymond was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and attended Notre Dame Seminary, from where he obtained his Master's in Divinity in 1975. He then furthered his studies at Loyola Institute for Ministry, and was ordained to the priesthood on May 10, 1975.

After serving as a pastor and high school teacher, Aymond became director of Pastoral Education and professor of Pastoral Counseling and Homiletics at his alma mater of Notre Dame Seminary in 1981. He later served as President-Rector of the seminary from 1986 to 2000. During his priestly ministry, he was also director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and a member of its national board from 1977 to 2000, and the founder and director of the Archdiocese of New Orleans's Christ the Healer Medical Mission Program in Granada, Nicaragua.

On April 7, 1990, Aymond was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans and Titular Bishop of Acholla by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on January 10, 1997 from Archbishop Francis Schulte, with Archbishops Philip Hannan and John Favalora serving as co-consecrators. In 1998, he allowed a Catholic school teacher to continue teaching despite allegations that the latter had earlier molested a student and failed to alert police, saying that the alleged victim refused speak with Aymond^[1]; the schoolteacher was later sentenced to prison after admitting to having molested seventeen boys.