1. John Oliver Barres is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Rockville Centre since 2017.
18 Facts About John Barres
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John Barres previously served as Bishop of Allentown from 2009 to 2017.
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John Barres's parents were Congregationalist ministers who converted to Catholicism in 1955.
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For high school, John Barres attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
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John Barres then entered the New York University Stern School of Business in New York City, earning in 1984 a Master of Business Administration degree in management.
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John Barres received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1988, and a Licentiate in Systematic Theology in 1989.
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John Barres was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Wilmington by Bishop Robert Mulvee on October 21,1989 at Saint Elizabeth Church in Wilmington, Delaware.
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In 1991, John Barres joined the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, run by Opus Dei.
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John Barres was transferred in 1992 to St Elizabeth Parish in Wilmington to serve as associate pastor there.
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John Barres went to Rome in 1996 to attend the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, where he earned a Licentiate of Canon Law in 1998 and a Doctor of Spirituality degree in 1999.
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On May 27,2009, John Barres was appointed the fourth bishop of Allentown by Pope Benedict XVI, succeeding Bishop Edward Cullen.
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John Barres received his episcopal consecration on July 30,2009, at the Cathedral of Saint Catharine of Siena in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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John Barres was the first diocesan bishop of Allentown who had not served previously in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
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John Barres established the Saint Thomas More Society for lawyers in the diocese and expanded the diocese's Hispanic ministry and evangelization.
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John Barres was installed on January 31,2017, at the Cathedral of Saint Agnes in Rockville Centre.
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John Barres serves on the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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In 2017, John Barres created with Telecare, the diocesan television network, a video series targeted to commuters, entitled The Catholic Spirituality of Commuter Delays.
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John Barres wrote about his parents' conversion to Catholicism in the book One Shepherd, One Flock.