List of bishops of St. Louis

The following is the list of bishops of the Archdiocese of St. Louis. The Roman Catholic Church in the United States comprises 195 dioceses led by diocesan bishops. Auxiliary bishops serve in association with the diocesan bishops in larger dioceses. There are thirty-two ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan archbishop, of which the Archbishop of Saint Louis is one. As of November 2010, five of the metropolitan archbishops of this see have been designated cardinals: John Joseph Glennon (1946), Joseph Ritter (1961), John Carberry (1969) Justin Francis Rigali (2003; as archbishop of Philadelphia), and Raymond Leo Burke (2010; as prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura).

In addition to the 195 dioceses, there are several other dioceses in the nation's overseas dependencies. There are also dioceses and eparchies of the Eastern Catholic Churches. A special archdiocese was created by the Vatican for the United States military. Such bodies are also organized into metropolitan provinces of their own.

All bishops in the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands, diocesan and auxiliary, are members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Bishops in Puerto Rico form their own Episcopal Conference. Those from insular areas in the Pacific Ocean are members of the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific.

St. Louis archdiocesan hierarchy

Archbishops

Joseph Rosati, C.M.: March 20, 1827 – September 25, 1843

Peter Richard Kenrick: September 25, 1843 – May 21, 1895

John Joseph Kain: May 21, 1895 – October 13, 1903

John Joseph Glennon: October 13, 1903 – March 9, 1946

Joseph Ritter: July 20, 1946 – June 10, 1967

John Carberry: March 25, 1968 – July 31, 1979

John Lawrence May: January 24, 1980 – December 2, 1992

Justin Francis Rigali: March 16, 1994 – July 15, 2003

Raymond Leo Burke: January 26, 2004 – June 27, 2008

Robert James Carlson: April 21, 2009 – June 10, 2020

Mitchell Thomas Rozanski: June 10, 2020 – Present

Succession chart

Auxiliary Bishops

Christian Herman Winkelmann: September 13, 1933 – December 27, 1939

George Joseph Donnelly: March 19, 1940 – November 9, 1946

John Cody: May 10, 1947 – January 27, 1954

Charles Herman Helmsing: March 17, 1949 – August 24, 1956

Leo Christopher Byrne: May 21, 1954 – February 11, 1961

Glennon Patrick Flavin: April 17, 1957 – May 29, 1967

George Joseph Gottwald: June 23, 1961 – August 2, 1988

Joseph Alphonse McNicholas: January 31, 1969 – July 22, 1975

Charles Roman Koester: January 2, 1971 – September 10, 1991

Edward Thomas O'Meara: January 28, 1972 – November 21, 1979

John Nicholas Wurm: June 25, 1976 – September 19, 1981

Edward Joseph O'Donnell: December 6, 1983 – November 8, 1994

James Terry Steib, S.V.D.: December 6, 1983 – May 5, 1993

Paul Albert Zipfel: May 16, 1989 – December 31, 1996

Edward Kenneth Braxton: May 17, 1995 – February 21, 2001

Michael John Sheridan: July 8, 1997 – December 4, 2001

Joseph Fred Naumann: July 8, 1997 – January 7, 2004

Timothy Michael Dolan: June 19, 2001 – June 25, 2002

Robert Joseph Hermann: October 16, 2002 – December 1, 2010

Edward Matthew Rice: December 1, 2010 – April 26, 2016

Mark Steven Rivituso: March 7, 2017 – Present

References

See also

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis

List of the Catholic bishops of the United States

List of the Catholic cathedrals of the United States

List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of the United States

List of bishops

Saint Louis

Bishops

Roman Catholic bishops in Missouri