Richard Pates

Richard Edmund Pates ( born February 12, 1943 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is since April 10, 2008 Bishop of Des Moines.

Life

Richard Edmund Pates visited the Pontifical North American College in Rome. On 20 December 1968 he was ordained by Bishop Francis Frederick Reh in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, a priest of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. In 1969 he received from the Gregorian University, the Licentiate in Theology. In 1979 he was ( Monsignor ) appointed Pontifical honor Kaplan. As a priest he had worked as a deputy minister at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, St. Paul, secretary of the archbishop, a member of the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, DC, as director of the St. John Vianney Seminary and as a chaplain at the Our ​​Lady of peace in Minneapolis. In 1998 he became the founding pastor at St. Ambrose Church in Woodbury, Minnesota.

On 22 December 2000, Pope John Paul II appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and Titular Bishop of Suacia. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Harry Joseph Flynn, on 26 March of the following year. Co-consecrators were Bishop Emeritus John Robert Roach and Bishop Frederick Francis Campbell.

For World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne welcomed Cardinal Karl Lehmann him by name during televised church service in Nieder-Olm ..

Pope Benedict XVI. appointed him on 10 April 2008 as Bishop of Des Moines. On 29 May of that year he was introduced to the office.