J. Michael Miller

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This article is about the Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. For the microbiologist, see J. Michael Miller (microbiologist).

Styles of J. Michael Miller


Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

John Michael Miller, CSB (born July 9, 1946) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vancouver. He was appointed to this post on June 1, 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. Until his recent appointment as Coadjutor Archbishop of Vancouver he served as Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education for the Roman Curia. Archbishop Miller is also vice-president of the Pontifical Work of Priestly Vocations, a member of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses and the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, and a consultor to the Congregation for Bishops.

Born in Ottawa, Miller joined the Congregation of St. Basil in 1966 and was ordained a priest by Pope Paul VI on June 29, 1975. He received a bachelor's degree in theology from St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto in 1974, a licentiate in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1976, and a doctoral degree from the Gregorian in 1979. From there he spent eight years at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas. From 1992 to 1997, Miller served in the Secretariat of State of the Holy See. In 1997, Archbishop Miller returned to the University of Saint Thomas, where he served as President; it was during this tenure that Miller became a naturalized American citizen on March 28, 2003.

On November 25, 2003, Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Archbishop of Vertara, in addition to his aforementioned work with the Congregation for Catholic Education. Miller received his episcopal consecration on January 12, 2004 from Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski, with Bishops Joseph Fiorenza and Ronald Peter Fabbro, CSB, serving as co-consecrators.

As coadjutor archbishop, Miller serves alongside the current Archbishop of Vancouver, Raymond Roussin. As Secretary, Miller served as the second-highest official in that dicastery, under Cardinal Grocholewski.