via Superior Catholic Herald
Pope Benedict XVI has named a
Wisconsin-born missionary, Msgr. Robert H. Flock, to be an auxiliary
bishop for the Archdiocese of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Bishop-designate
Flock, who will celebrate his 56th birthday Nov. 4, has served at Santa
Cruz Parish in the Archdiocese of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, since 1988. The
parish was founded by priests from the Diocese of La Crosse, Wis., in
the 1950s.
The Vatican announced the new assignment for Bishop-designate Flock, a La Crosse priest and native of Sparta, Wis., Oct. 31.
Since
2000, Bishop-designate Flock has served as pastor of Santa Cruz Parish
and as the head of formation for young priests in the Bolivian
archdiocese. He also served as vicar general of the archdiocese from
2003 until earlier this year.
He earned a bachelor's degree in
theology from St. Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee, then was sent
to the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He earned a license in
biblical theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and was
ordained to the priesthood in 1982.
In the Diocese of La Crosse, he served in parishes in Onalaska, Marshfield and Chili before beginning his assignment in Bolivia.
The
Santa Cruz Parish website said that when Bishop-designate Flock
arrived, he "immediately set to 'modernizing' [the good kind] the parish with computers,
photocopy machines and the Internet. Since becoming pastor in 2000, he
has begun an ambitious project, gradually rebuilding the parish
infrastructure to respond to dynamic pastoral life of our parish as it
prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary."
Flock was just named Monsignor a month ago. That was quick.
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