David Ricken

David Laurin Ricken ( born November 9, 1952 in Dodge City, Kansas) is Roman Catholic Bishop of Green Bay.

Life

Ricken grew up in Kansas and attended school in Dodge City and the small town of Victoria, before he entered the seminary. He studied at several American universities, Catholic Theology, and finally went to the Catholic University of Leuven and the local American Seminar. On September 12, 1980, he was ordained by Bishop Arthur Tafoya as a priest of the Diocese of Pueblo. After various pastoral activities Ricken was incorporated in 1987 to further study in Rome. 1989, he earned a licentiate at the Gregorian University in Canon Law.

After his return to the U.S., he worked as head of the spiritual vocations and chancellor of his diocese. From 1996 to 1999 Ricken was again in Rome, where he was a member of the Congregation for the Clergy.

Pope John Paul II appointed Ricken on 14 December 1999 Coadjutor Bishop of Cheyenne and donated him on 6 January 2000 in St. Peter's Episcopal ordination. Co-consecrators were later Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re and Archbishop Marcello Zago, Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

With the resignation of his predecessor Joseph Hubert Hart Ricken occurred on 26 September 2001 its successor as Bishop of Cheyenne. On 9 July 2008, Pope Benedict XVI. him bishop of Green Bay.