WOF 343: Bishop Barron’s New Diocese in Minnesota

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Friends, as you may have heard, Pope Francis recently appointed me the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester (Minnesota). I will be formally installed on July 29.

On today's episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss how I found out, how the process works, how it will affect Word on Fire, and what I'm looking forward to most in my new diocese.

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0:00.0	When you're the ordinary, now you're the one who sets the tone and provides the vision.
0:06.8	From a kind of real practical standpoint, the buck stops with you.
0:10.2	So you're the one that has to make the final decisions.
0:13.0	I put it in spiritual terms, you're the father of that diocese.
0:17.9	So I'm a bishop of this diocese in Los Angeles, but I'm not the spiritual father of the arts
0:24.8	diocese.
0:25.8	Jose Gomez is.
0:26.8	But now in Winona Rochester, I'm the spiritual father of the roughly 140,000 Catholics who
0:33.1	are there.
0:41.1	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.
0:43.3	I'm Brandon Vot, the senior publishing director at Word on Fire.
0:47.4	It's an exciting time at Word on Fire because Pope Francis has just appointed Bishop
0:52.0	Beren to be the next bishop of the diocese of Winona Rochester.
0:57.6	We're going to talk about that today when Bishop Beren found out about it, how the process
1:02.1	works, what he's looking forward to, and his new diocese.
1:05.4	So welcome, new bishop of the diocese of Winona Rochester.
1:09.9	Well, thanks Brandon, always good to be with you.
1:12.7	And yeah, it is an interesting exciting time for me.
1:16.0	Before we get to this exciting news, let's update everyone on what you've been up to.
1:20.5	You recently got back from New York.
1:22.6	You took a trip there to do a Word on Fire event.
1:25.1	And then you got to play golf at a pretty prestigious golf course.
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