Robert Joseph Banks

Robert Joseph Banks ( born February 26, 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American clergyman and Catholic Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay.

Robert Banks grew up in his native town and visited here the Cathedral High School before he entered the seminary. He studied Catholic theology in Rome and was ordained here in the Lateran Basilica on 20 December 1952 by Cardinal Dean later Luigi Traglia a priest.

For many years, taught canon law at the Banks Saint John's Seminary, the seminary of the Archdiocese of Boston, whose rector he later became.

Pope John Paul II appointed Banks on June 26, 1985 Titular Bishop of Taraqua and auxiliary bishop in Boston. The bishop He was ordained on September 19, 1985 by Cardinal Bernard Francis Law. Co-consecrators were the bishops Daniel Anthony Cronin of Fall River and John Aloysius Marshall of Burlington.

On 16 October 1990, the Pope Robert Joseph Banks appointed as Bishop of Green Bay. Bishop Banks pushed for the spiritual renewal of his diocese and promoted vocations and pastoral care for Latin American immigrants. The good ecumenical contacts of his predecessor, Adam Joseph Maida, he developed more intensively. In the U.S. Bishops Conference, he led the formation of the Commission.

On 10 October 2003 Banks ' age-related resignation was accepted.