Baptized
Immaculate Conception Church, Maplewood, Missouri

Grade School
Holy Infant, Ballwin, Missouri
Graduated June 1964

High School
St. Louis Preparatory Seminary, Shrewsbury, Missouri, 1964-1968

College
Cardinal Glennon College, Shrewsbury, Missouri, 1968-1972
B.A. Philosophy, 1972

Theology
North American College, Rome, 1972-1976
S.T.B., Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, 1975
M.A., Theology, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, 1976

Ordained a Priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, June 19, 1976

Associate Pastor
Immacolata Parish, Richmond Heights, Missouri, 1976-1979

Graduate Studies
In Church History, The Catholic University of America, 1979-1983

M.A., 1981; Thesis: “Prophet of a Better Hope: The Life of William J. Kerby.”

Recipient of Bishop Thomas Shahan Prize for Excellence in Church History, 1984

Ph.D., 1985; Dissertation: “To Teach, Govern, and Sanctify: The Life of Edwin V. O’Hara.”

Associate Pastor
Cure of Ars Parish, Shrewsbury, Missouri, 1983-1985
Little Flower Parish, Richmond Heights, Missouri, 1985-1987

Secretary
Apostolic Nunciature, Embassy of the Holy See, Washington, D.C., 1987-1992

Vice-Rector, Director of Spiritual Formation, Professor of Church History Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, Archdiocese of St. Louis, 1992-1994

Rector, Pontifical North American College, Rome, 1994-2001

Episcopal Appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of St. Louis, Titular Bishop of Natchez, June 19, 2001

Episcopal Ordination as Auxiliary Bishop of St. Louis, Titular Bishop of Natchez, August 15, 2001

Appointed Archbishop of Milwaukee, June 25, 2002
Installed as Archbishop of Milwaukee, August 28, 2002

Appointed
Adjunct Professor of Theology, St. Louis University, 1993-1994

Chaplain, St. Louis Knights of Malta, 1993-1994

Conference Master, Passionist Sisters, Ellisville, Missouri, 1992-1994

Board of Directors, National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1993-1994

Board of Directors, Birthright Counseling of St. Louis, 1992-1994

Board of Directors, Clergy for Life, 1992-1994

Visiting Professor of Church History, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, 1994-2001

Faculty of the Department of Ecumenical Theology, Pontifical University of St. Thomas of Aquinas, Rome, 1994-2001

Board of Directors, Cardinal Glennon Hospital for Children, 2002

Adjunct Profession of Church History, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, 2001-2002

Publications
Some Seed Fell on Good Ground: The Life of Edwin V. O’Hara, (The Catholic University of America Press, 1992).

“ ‘Hence We Cheerfully Sent One to Represent Our Person’: A Century of Papal Representation in the United States.” Peter Gerety Lecture,
Seton Hall University, Newark, New Jersey, October 14, 1992.

Review of Patterns of Episcopal Leadership, Gerald P. Fogarty, ed., in Catholic Historical Review (January, 1990).

“The Rural Ideology of Edwin V. O’Hara,” U.S. Catholic Historian (VIII, 3, Fall 1989).

“The Establishment of the Hierarchy in the United States,” Catholic Answers (April, 1989).

Review of Virgil Michel, American Catholic by R.W. Franklin and Robert L. Spaeth, in Catholic Historical Review (April, 1989).

“Charles E. Coughlin: Shepherd of Discontent,” Critic, (Fall 1987).

Entries on “William J. Kerby,” and “John A. Ryan,” in Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America (Greenwood Press, 1986).

Entry on “The Diocese of Great Falls-Billings,” in Dictionnaire D’Histoire et de Geographie Ecclesiastiques (Louvain).

Review of Defender of the Faith, by Wilfred Schoenberg, S.J., in Oregon Historical Review.

“The Life and Times of Fulton J. Sheen,” Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1895-1995 (Rome: Ateneo Regina Apostolorum, 1995).

Priests for the Third Millennium (Our Sunday Visitor Press, 2000).