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Joliet Diocese Announced A Newly Appointed Bishop in July

By Jessica Stevens
 
Photo Credit Chicagocatholic.com
 

 

    On July 17th Pope Francis announced that Bishop Ronald A. Hicks, the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Chicago, will be the sixth Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Joliet, Il and will be installed at the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus. Bishop Hicks is a native of Harvey, Il and grew up in South Holland, Il. He graduated from Quigley Seminary South in 1985 and received his bachelor’s in philosophy from Niles College of Loyola University Chicago in 1989, received his Master of Divinity degree in 1994, and his Doctor of Ministry degree in 2003 from the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Il.

 

    Bishop Hick previously served as the Associate Pastor at Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Chicago from 1994 to 1996, and then at St. Elizabeth Seton Parish in Orland Hills, Il from 1996 to 1999. Bishop Hicks was also the Dean of Formation at St. Joseph College Seminary from 1999 to 2005. In 2005 Bishop Hicks moved to El Salvador, with the permission from Cardinal Francis George, to take up a five-year term as the Regional Director of Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos (NPH), which is a home that cares for abandoned and orphaned children in Latin American and Caribbean countries. Bishop Hicks returned to the states in 2010 and served as the Dean of Formation at Mundelein Seminary, assisting with weekend Masses at St. Jerome until 2014. In 2015, Cardinal Cupich appointed Bishop Hicks the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and on September 17th, 2018 Bishop Hicks was ordained an Auxiliary Bishop at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.

 

   Bishop Hicks will take his place at the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus on September 29th, 2020. 

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