1. Edward Weisenburger previously served as Bishop of Tucson from 2017 to 2025 and as Bishop of Salina from 2012 to 2017.
16 Facts About Edward Weisenburger
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Edward Weisenburger was born in Alton, Illinois, on December 23,1960, to Edward and Asella Weisenburger.
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Edward Weisenburger grew up primarily in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he attended St Barbara School and graduated from Eisenhower High School in 1979.
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Edward Weisenburger began his studies at Conception Seminary College in Conception, Missouri, graduating with honors in 1983.
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Edward Weisenburger earned his Bachelor of Theology and Master of Religious Studies degrees in 1986.
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Edward Weisenburger received his Master of Arts in Religious Studies and Master of Moral and Religious Sciences degrees in Leuven in 1987.
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Edward Weisenburger began studying at St Paul University in Ottawa in 1990, earning a Licentiate of Canon Law degree in 1992.
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Edward Weisenburger returned to Oklahoma, and was appointed as Vice Chancellor and adjutant judicial vicar for the Archdiocese.
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In 2002, Edward Weisenburger was named pastor and then rector of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish.
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Edward Weisenburger was promoter of justice for the canonization of Reverend Stanley Rother, an Oklahoma priest murdered in 1981 by a death squad in Guatemala.
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On October 2,2009, Edward Weisenburger was appointed a prelate of honor with the title monsignor.
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Edward Weisenburger was appointed Bishop of Salina by Pope Benedict XVI on February 6,2012.
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On October 3,2017, Edward Weisenburger was named the seventh Bishop of Tucson by Pope Francis.
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On February 11,2025, Edward Weisenburger was appointed as Archbishop of Detroit, succeeding Allen Vigneron.
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Edward Weisenburger call for the Church to act as a "sanctuary for the human person".
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Edward Weisenburger acknowledged the ethical concerns about fetal cell lines but maintained that the Church's teaching resolved these concerns, making exemptions based on Catholic faith untenable.