Joseph Charron

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Styles of Joseph Charron
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

Joseph Leo Charron, C.PP.S. is Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Des Moines in the United States state of Iowa.

Charron was born in Redfield, South Dakota on December 30, 1939. He is one of eight children.

He received his theology B.A. in 1963 and M.A. in 1966 from the University of Dayton. He earned his Sacred Theology Licentiate at Lateran University in Rome, Italy in 1968. His Sacred Theology Doctorate in Moral Theology was earned at Academia Alfonsiana in Rome, Italy in 1970.

He professed and became a member of the Society of Precious Blood, Kansas City Province on August 15, 1961. On June 3, 1967 he was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on June 3, 1967 in Carthagena, Ohio.

Charron was an Assistant Professor of Theology at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota from 1970-1976. From 1976-1979 he served as Assistant General Secretary and Associate General Secretary of the United States Catholic Conference and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

In 1979 Charron became Provincial Director, C.PP.S., Kansas City Province, a post he held until 1987. He returned to St. John's University where he served as Adjunct Professor of Theology from 1987-1990.

He was ordained Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis on January 25, 1990. He was named Bishop of the Diocese of Des Moines on January 21, 1994.