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ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS
Most Reverend Joseph N.
Perry
Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago
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Perry is Episcopal Vicar for Vicariate VI of the
Archdiocese of Chicago, which encompasses seventy-eight
parishes and over sixty elementary and secondary
schools. Bishop Perry was appointed Auxiliary Bishop to
Cardinal Francis George by Pope John Paul II on May 1998
and was ordained to the episcopacy on June 29, 1998.
Bishop Perry was ordained a
priest in 1975. Previous to his Episcopal appointment,
he served twenty-three years as a priest of the
Archdiocese of Milwaukee having duties as an associate
pastor and pastor of urban and inner city parishes
respectively. In between parish assignments, Father
Perry was assigned to studies in canon law at the
Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and,
thereafter, served eighteen years in the Tribunal
Department of the Archdiocese, functioning as advocate
and then judge in matrimonial, administrative and
appeals court.
He had the post of Judicial
Vicar for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee for twelve of
those years while teaching courses in canon law at
Sacred Heart School of Theology, Hales Corners,
Wisconsin; Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee;
and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein,
Illinois. Bishop Perry publishes widely in canon
law journals and Catholic periodicals on issues treating
ecclesiastical governance and the rights of persons
within the Church.
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