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Robert Joseph Fisher (born September 24, 1959) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan since 2016.

Biography

Early life

Robert Fisher was born in Detroit, Michigan, on September 24, 1959, the oldest of the four children of Robert and Trudy (Torzewski) Fisher. He attended Epiphany and St. Bede Elementary schools, both in Detroit, then went to the University of Detroit Jesuit High School. During his summer breaks, Fisher worked at the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) at their summer camps near Port Sanilac, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Detroit with a Bachelor of Science degree in management science.

After finishing college, Fisher started working full time for CYO in their camping department. By 1986, he had decided to enter the priesthood and began his studies at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, eventually earning a Master of Divinity degree.

Priesthood

Fisher was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Detroit at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament by Cardinal Adam Maida on June 27, 1992. After his ordination, the archdiocese assigned Fisher as associate pastor at Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. In 1995, Maida named Fisher as director of priestly vocations for the archdiocese.

In 2000, Fisher was appointed as pastor of St. Angela Parish in Roseville, Michigan. He was transferred in 2004 to serve as pastor of St. Lawrence Parish in Utica, Michigan, a post he would hold for the next 11 years. In 2014, Archbishop Allen Vigneron named Fisher as rector of the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, Michigan, a position he still holds. Fisher also served on the Catholic Schools Council and the CYO board of directors.

Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit

Pope Francis appointed Fisher as an auxiliary bishop of Detroit and titular bishop of Forum Pompilii on November 23, 2016. On January 25, 2017, he was installed and consecrated by Archbishop Allen Vigneron at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, with Bishop John M. Quinn and Archbishop Paul Russell serving as co-conseccrators. Fisher chose as his episcopal motto Per Caritatem Servite Invicem, meaning "Out of love, place yourselves at one another’s service", from Galatians 5:13 in the New Testament.

Fisher currently serves as episcopal vicar and regional moderator for the Northeast Region of the archdiocese.

See also

• Catholic Church hierarchy
• Catholic Church in the United States
• Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
• List of Catholic bishops of the United States
• Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops

References

1. ^ "Bishop Robert Fisher". Archdiocese of Detroit. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
2. ^ "Bishop Robert Joseph Fisher [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
3. "Pope Names New Auxiliary Bishops of Detroit, Michigan, and Orange, California". Retrieved November 23, 2016.
4. "BREAKING: Pope Francis names Fr. Battersby, Fr. Fisher as Detroit's new auxiliary bishops". Archived from the original on November 25, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
5. "The Episcopal Coat of Arms of The Most Rev Robert Joseph Fisher". Archdiocese of Detroit. Retrieved July 19, 2019.

External links

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit

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• Catholicism
• Michigan

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v t e Clergy of the Archdiocese of Detroit Auxiliary bishops Moses Anderson Allen James Babcock Gerard William Battersby Leonard Paul Blair Earl Boyea Joseph M. Breitenbeck Kevin Michael Britt Michael J. Byrnes Arturo Cepeda Patrick R. Cooney Henry Edmund Donnelly John Anthony Donovan Robert J. Fisher Daniel E. Flores Thomas Gumbleton Donald Hanchon Bernard Joseph Harrington Walter A. Hurley Joseph Leopold Imesch Edward D. Kelly Arthur Henry Krawczak Dale Joseph Melczek Jeffrey M. Monforton John Clayton Nienstedt Joseph C. Plagens John M. Quinn Francis R. Reiss Paul Fitzpatrick Russell Walter Joseph Schoenherr Allen Henry Vigneron Stephen Stanislaus Woznicki Alexander M. Zaleski Priests Alexander Joseph Brunett Solanus Casey Charles Coughlin Francis Kelley Camillus Paul Maes Jeffrey Marc Monforton William Murphy John A. Trese Kenneth Edward Untener
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