BISHOP JOSEPH PERRY CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF PRIESTHOOD
Bishop Joseph Perry was ordained a priest for the
Archdiocese of Milwaukee on May 24, 1975.
From the mid-1970s to the late 1990s,
Bishop Perry was a priest within the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, serving first as
associate pastor of St. Nicholas Parish followed by an assignment (1976) within
the tribunal department of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, becoming Chief
Judicial Officer of the Tribunal from 1983 until 1995.
Bishop Perry then was
assigned pastor of All Saints Church in Milwaukee in 1995 until his ordination
as a bishop June 1998.
Perry was a professor of canon law at the Sacred Heart
School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wisconsin 1981-1995. Since 1996 he was an
instructor in canon law at both the Marquette University Law School and since
1997 at Mundelein Seminary.Mundelein, Illinois.
After his consecration as a bishop on June 29, 1998,
Bishop Perry was appointed the episcopal vicar for Vicariate VI of the
Archdiocese of Chicago and also serves as the Episcopal Moderator for the St.
John Paul II Eucharistic Adoration Association of the Chicago Archdiocese.
The Members of the St. John Paul Eucharistic
Adoration Association are very grateful for Bishop Perry's leadership and
support with our mission to establish Eucharistic Adoration Chapels and support
existing Chapels in the Chicago Archdiocese.
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