Several bishops with ties to St Thomas University

Bishop Blase Cupich, a 1971 St. Thomas alumnus who since 1998 has been bishop of Rapid City, S.D., last week was named bishop of the Diocese of Spokane, Wash.
Cupich joins a list of at least seven other men named bishops in recent years who have St. Thomas and St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity ties.

• Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis, a 1966 St. Paul Seminary alumnus
• Bishop Peter Christensen of Superior, Wis., a 1981 St. Thomas alumnus
• Bishop Arthur Kennedy, a former St. Thomas faculty member
• Bishop John Kinney of St. Cloud, a 1963 St. Paul Seminary alumnus
• Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines, a 1965 St. Paul Seminary alumnus
• Bishop Lee Piché of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, a 1980 St. Thomas and a 1984 St. Paul Seminary alumnus who is a member of the St. Thomas Board of Trustees
• Bishop Paul Sirba of Duluth, a 1982 St. Thomas alumnus.

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