William J. Waltersheid

William John Waltersheid ( born November 18, 1956 in Ashland ) is Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh.

Life

The only son of William F. and Margaret M. Waltersheid grew up in Locust Gap and first completed a nursing education at the Pottsville Hospital School of Nursing. From 1985, he studied at St. John Seminary College in Brighton and in 1988 at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

The Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, Cardinal Pio Laghi, ordained him a deacon on 30 April 1992 and the Bishop of Harrisburg, Nicholas Carmen Dattilo, ordained him a priest on July 11, 1992.

In 1993 he graduated from the Pontifical Gregorian University, a Licentiate in Dogmatic Theology and remained until 1995 to further studies in Rome. After pastoral work as a chaplain in Steelton in 1999, he returned back to the Pontifical North American College in Rome, where he was vice-rector for a year. In the summer of 2003 he returned to the United States and became a minister in Carlisle. 2006 appointed him Bishop Kevin Rhoades to Carl Secretary for Clergy and Consecrated Life in the Diocese of Harrisburg.

Pope Benedict XVI. appointed him on 25 February 2011 as the Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh and Titular Bishop of California. The Bishop of Pittsburgh, David Zubík, donated to him on April 25th of that year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Auxiliary Bishops Daniel Edward Thomas and Joseph Patrick McFadden of Philadelphia. As a motto he chose Ecce Mater Tua.