John Clayton Nienstedt

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John Clayton Nienstedt is the Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. On May 2, 2008, he succeeded Archbishop Harry Flynn upon his retirement at the age of 75.

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Styles of John Clayton Nienstedt


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

John Clayton Nienstedt was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 18th 1947. He studied for the priesthood at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome before being ordained a priest on July 27, 1974. He earned a Licentiate and Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Institute of Saint Alphonsus in Rome in Moral Theology.

John Nienstedt was named an Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit by Pope John Paul II on June 12, 1996. He was ordained a Bishop by Cardinal Adam Maida, Archbishop of Detroit, on July 9, 1996. On June 12, 2001 Pope John Paul II named Bishop Nienstedt the bishop of the Diocese of New Ulm, Minnesota where he was installed as its third bishop on August 6, 2001. Pope Benedict XVI, appointed Bishop Nienstedt as coadjutor archbishop for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis on April 24, 2007. He was officially welcomed to the post on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, June 29, 2007. Upon Archbishop Flynn's retirement on May 2, 2008, Nienstedt automatically succeeded him as Archbishop. ^[1] ^[2]