Richard Higgins
His Excellency, The Most Reverend Richard Brendan Higgins | |
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Auxiliary Bishop for the Military Services, USA Titular Bishop of Casae Calanae | |
Archdiocese | Military Services, USA |
Appointed | May 7, 2004 |
Installed | July 3, 2004 |
Other posts | Titular Bishop of Casae Calanae |
Orders | |
Ordination | March 9, 1968 |
Consecration |
July 3, 2004 by Edwin Frederick O'Brien, Howard James Hubbard, and William Weigand |
Personal details | |
Born |
Longford, County Longford, Ireland | February 22, 1944
Styles of Richard Brendan Higgins | |
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Reference style | |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
Colonel Richard Brendan Higgins, USAF (ret),[1] (born 22 February 1944) is an Irish-born American Roman Catholic bishop. Bishop Higgins is the Titular Bishop of the Casae Calanae and serves as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.
Biography
Higgins was born in Longford, County Longford, Ireland. He was ordained a priest on 9 March 1968 for the Diocese of Sacramento at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. He joined the United States Air Force as a chaplain in 1974, and served both in the United States and abroad, including two assignments as the Catholic pastor at the United States Air Force Academy. He was named an Honorary Prelate of His Holiness (monsignor) by Pope John Paul II in 1997.
On 7 May 2004 he was appointed Titular Bishop for the Diocese of Casae Calanae.[2] He was consecrated on 3 July of the same year at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. The Principal Consecrator was Archbishop Edwin O’Brien; his Principal Co-Consecrators were Bishop Howard Hubbard, and Bishop William Weigand.
After 30 years of active duty service, Bishop Higgins retired from the Air Force on September 1, 2004, with the rank of colonel. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit with one oak leaf cluster and the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal with seven oak leaf clusters.
See also
- Catholic Church hierarchy
- Catholic Church in the United States
- Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
- Insignia of Chaplain Schools in the US Military
- List of Catholic bishops of the United States
- List of Catholic bishops of the United States: military service
- Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops
- Military chaplain
- Religious symbolism in the United States military
- United States Air Force Chaplain Corps
- United States military chaplains
References
- ↑ "Most Rev. Richard B. Higgins, S.T.L., D.D."; Archdiocese for the Military Services (2005); url accessed March 21, 2007
- ↑ Ordination of Bishop Higgins
External links
- Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, official website
- Archdiocese for the Military Services of the United States. GCatholic.org. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
Episcopal succession
Catholic Church titles | ||
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Preceded by – |
Auxiliary Bishop for the Military Services, USA 2004 - Present |
Succeeded by – |