| Bishop Edward K. Braxton will be installed as
the Bishop of the Diocese of Lake Charles on February 22, 2001 at Our Lady Queen of
Heaven Catholic Church. Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, Apostolic Nuncio to
the United States will preside at the installation.
Bishop Braxton was born in Chicago on June 28, 1944, and attended
Catholic schools in the Chicago area. He earned his master's degree from
St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, and a Ph.D. in
religious studies and systematic theology from the Catholic University of
Louvain in Belgium. Bishop Braxton was ordained a priest on May 13, 1970.
From 1986 to 1991, he was
the official theological consultant for William H. Sadlier Inc., the
Catholic catechetical publisher in New York, where he also worked in the
parish ministry at St. Joseph Church in Greenwich Village. From 1984 to
1986, he was director of Calvert House, the Catholic Student Center at the
University of Chicago. In 1983, he was the Scholar in Residence at the
North American College in Rome. From 1978 to 1983, Bishop Braxton served
as personal theologian and research assistant to Cardinal James Hickey,
Archbishop of Washington, D.C.
Bishop Braxton is nationally recognized as a pastoral theologian. His
writings have appeared in the Harvard Theological Review, Theological
Studies, Louvain Studies, Irish Theological Quarterly, The New Catholic
Encyclopedia, Origins, Commonweal, America, The National Catholic Reporter
and other journals. He is a former Visiting Professor at the University of
Notre Dame, the Catholic University of America, the Harvard Divinity
School and the North American College in Rome.
Bishop Edward K. Braxton was ordained Auxiliary Bishop of the
Archdiocese of St. Louis on May 17, 1995 by Archbishop Justin Rigali in
the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.
Bishop Braxton’s responsibilities in St. Louis were many, he served
the Archdiocese as Vicar General for Catholic Hospitals, Catholic
Charities, the Permanent Diaconate and Evangelization. He is a member of
the National Conference of Catholic Bishops Committees on Education,
Science and Human Values, Scripture Translations and is Chairman of the
Committee for the American College of Louvain. He serves as the Convenor
of the African-American Catholic Bishops.
Prior to being named auxiliary bishop, he served as pastor of St.
Catherine of Siena and St. Lucy Parish in Oak Park, Illinois from 1991 to
1995.
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