1. Robert Barron is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire, and was the host of Catholicism, a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS.
27 Facts About Robert Barron
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Robert Barron served as rector at Mundelein Seminary from 2012 to 2015 and as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2015 to 2022.
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Robert Barron is a religion correspondent for NBC and has appeared on Fox News, CNN, and EWTN.
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Robert Barron has been informally called the "bishop of social media" and the "bishop of the Internet".
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Robert Barron has keynoted several conferences and events over the world, including the 2016 World Youth Day and the 2015 World Meeting of Families.
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Robert Barron was born on November 19,1959, in Chicago.
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Robert Barron spent his childhood first in Detroit, then in the Chicago suburb of Western Springs.
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Robert Barron has a sister, and a brother, John Barron, who is the Sun-Times Media Group's publisher.
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Robert Barron started reading the works of Thomas Aquinas when he was a freshman at Fenwick High School, a private Dominican high school.
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Robert Barron transferred to Benet Academy, a private Benedictine high school, where he graduated in 1977.
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Robert Barron attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, for a year before transferring to Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois.
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Robert Barron earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from Mundelein Seminary in 1986.
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Robert Barron was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 24,1986, by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.
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Robert Barron's dissertation was titled "Creation as Discipleship: A Study of the De potentia of Thomas Aquinas in Light of the Dogmatik of Paul Tillich".
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From 1992 until 2015, Robert Barron was a professor of systematic theology at University of St Mary of the Lake, where he was named the inaugural Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture in 2008.
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Robert Barron lectured extensively in the United States and internationally, including the Pontifical North American College and the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
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In 2000, Robert Barron launched Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, a non-profit organization, that supports his evangelistic endeavors.
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In 2002, Robert Barron was a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame and at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in 2007.
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Robert Barron was twice scholar-in-residence at the Pontifical North American College, in 2007 and 2010.
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On September 8,2015, Barron received his episcopal consecration at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels from Archbishop Jose H Gomez.
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That same month, Robert Barron started a weekly podcast called The Word on Fire Show.
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Robert Barron is a frequent commentator for The Chicago Tribune, NBC Nightly News, Fox News Channel, Our Sunday Visitor, the Catholic Herald and The Catholic New World.
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Robert Barron's videos are aired on CatholicTV, EWTN, Telecare, NET TV, and Salt + Light Television.
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Robert Barron created a 10-part documentary, Catholicism, filmed in 16 countries, which aired on public television in the United States beginning in 2011.
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In October 2010, Robert Barron premiered a half-hour television show, Word on Fire with Father Robert Barron, on WGN America on Sundays.
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Robert Barron is the first priest since Archbishop Fulton Sheen in the 1950s to have a regular national program on a commercial television network.
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Robert Barron has appeared on other podcasts, including those of Jordan Peterson, Lex Fridman, and Ben Shapiro.