Michael William Warfel

Styles of Michael Warfel
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	not applicable

Michael William Warfel (born September 16, 1948) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church serving as the seventh and current bishop of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Montana.

Biography

Michael Warfel was born in Elkhart, Indiana, and studied at Indiana University; St. Gregory's College Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, from where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy; Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West, earning his Master's of Divinity; and St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, earning his Master's in Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood on April 26, 1980. He then performed pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska.

On November 19, 1996, Warfel was appointed the fourth Bishop of Juneau by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following December 17 from Archbishop Francis Hurley, with Bishops Michael Kaniecki, SJ, and William Skylstad serving as co-consecrators. Warfel was Chairman of the Committee on Evangelization within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1999 to 2002. He was later named Apostolic Administrator of Fairbanks on October 23, 2001, resigning upon the appointment of Donald Joseph Kettler on June 7, 2002.^[1]

Pope Benedict XVI named him the seventh Bishop of Great Falls-Billings, Montana on November 20, 2007.^[2] He was formally installed in his new post by Archbishop John Vlazny on January 16, 2008.

Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Warfel also serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions, and as a member of the Administrative Committee for the USCCB.

See also

References

1. ↑ Whispers in the Loggia. Big Sky Gets its Bishop January 18, 2007
2. ↑ Billings Gazette. Catholic Diocese of Great Falls-Billings installs new bishop January 17, 2008

External links

• Official site of the Holy See

Diocese of Great Falls–Billings Bishops Ordinaries Mathias Clement Lenihan Edwin Vincent O'Hara William Joseph Condon Eldon Bernard Schuster Thomas Joseph Murphy Anthony Michael Milone Michael William Warfel Churches Cathedrals St. Ann's Cathedral, Great Falls St. Patrick's Co-Cathedral, Billings Parishes St. Peter's Church, Wibaux Education Higher Education University of Great Falls High schools Billings Central Catholic High School, Billings Great Falls Central Catholic High School, Great Falls St. Labre Indian Catholic High School, Ashland Catholicism Portal

Diocese of Juneau Bishops Robert Dermot O'Flanagan Francis Thomas Hurley Michael Hughes Kenny Michael William Warfel Edward J. Burns Churches Cathedral Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholicism Portal

Archdiocese of Anchorage Archbishops John Joseph Thomas Ryan Francis Thomas Hurley Roger Lawrence Schwietz Churches Cathedral Holy Family Cathedral Education High Schools Holy Rosary Academy, Anchorage Lumen Christi Junior/Senior High School, Anchorage Priests Michael William Warfel Catholicism Portal

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