Bernard Anthony Hebda J.C.L. J.D. | |
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Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis | |
![]() Archbishop Hebda prays the Eucharistic Prayer at a Mass commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of Saint John Vianney College Seminary | |
See | Saint Paul and Minneapolis |
Appointed | March 24, 2016 |
Installed | May 13, 2016 |
Predecessor | John Clayton Nienstedt |
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Orders | |
Ordination | July 1, 1989 by Donald Wuerl |
Consecration | December 1, 2009 by Allen Henry Vigneron, Francesco Coccopalmerio, and Patrick R. Cooney |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Alma mater | Harvard University Columbia University Pontifical Gregorian University |
Motto | "Only Jesus." (Mark 9:8) |
Styles of Bernard Anthony Hebda | |
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![]() Or, an elderberry tree fructed, all proper, issuant from a fess chequy Azure and Argent and surmounted by a seven-pointed star of the second.[1] | |
Reference style | |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Archbishop |
Bernard Anthony Hebda (born September 3, 1959) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has served as the twelfth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota since March 24, 2016.
Prior to his installation as the archbishop, Hebda had served as both the apostolic administrator of that archdiocese since June 2015, as well as the coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Newark in New Jersey since September 2013. Before that, he was bishop of the Diocese of Gaylord in Michigan from 2009 to 2013, as well as in the Roman Curia on the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts from 2003 to 2009.
Besides English, Hebda speaks Italian and knows Latin, French, and Spanish.[2]