- Joseph Charron
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name=Joseph Charron
dipstyle=The Most Reverend
offstyle=Your Excellency
relstyle=Monsignor
deathstyle=none |Joseph Leo Charron, C.PP.S. is Bishop Emeritus of the
Diocese of Des Moines in theUnited States state ofIowa .Charron was born in
Redfield, South Dakota on December 30, 1939. He is one of eight children.He received his
theology B.A. in 1963 and M.A. in 1966 from theUniversity of Dayton . He earned a licentiate in sacred theology atLateran University inRome ,Italy in 1968, and a doctorate at the Academia Alfonsiana in Rome in 1970.He made religious profession and became a member of the
Society of Precious Blood on August 15, 1961. On June 3, 1967 he was ordained to theRoman Catholic priesthood in Carthagena,Ohio .Charron was an Assistant Professor of Theology at St. John's University in
Collegeville, Minnesota from 1970-1976. From 1976-1979 he served as Assistant General Secretary and Associate General Secretary of theUnited States Catholic Conference and theNational Conference of Catholic Bishops .In 1979 Charron became provincial director of the Kansas City Province of the Sanguinist Fathers, a post he held until 1987. He returned to St. John's University where he served as Adjunct Professor of Theology 1987-1990.
He was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of the
Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis on January 25, 1990. He was namedBishop of theDiocese of Des Moines on January 21, 1994.
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