Michael William Warfel

Styles of Michael Warfel
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	not applicable

Michael William Warfel (born September 16, 1948) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the seventh and current Bishop of Great Falls-Billings.

Biography

Michael Warfel was born in Elkhart, Indiana, and studied at Indiana University; St. Gregory's College Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, from where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy; Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West, earning his Master's of Divinity; and St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, earning his Master's in Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood on April 26, 1980. He then performed pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska.

On November 19, 1996, Warfel was appointed the fourth Bishop of Juneau by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following December 17 from Archbishop Francis Hurley, with Bishops Michael Kaniecki, SJ, and William Skylstad serving as co-consecrators. Warfel was Chairman of the Committee on Evangelization within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1999 to 2002. He was later named Apostolic Administrator of Fairbanks on October 23, 2001, resigning upon the appointment of Donald Joseph Kettler on June 7, 2002. During his tenure in Juneau, he dealt with two cases of sexual abuse by priests.^[1]

Pope Benedict XVI named him the seventh Bishop of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, on November 20, 2007.^[2] He was formally installed in his new post by Archbishop John Vlazny on January 16, 2008.

Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Warfel also serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions, and as a member of the Administrative Committee for the USCCB.

References

1. ^ Whispers in the Loggia. Big Sky Gets its Bishop January 18, 2007
2. ^ Billings Gazette. Catholic Diocese of Great Falls-Billings installs new bishop January 17, 2008

External links

• Diocese of Great Falls-Billings
• Catholic-Hierarchy
• Diocese of Fairbanks

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Michael Hughes Kenny	Bishop of Juneau 1996–2007	Succeeded by Edward J. Burns
Preceded by Anthony Michael Milone	Bishop of Great Falls-Billings 2007–present	Succeeded by incumbent

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Name	Warfel, Michael William
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Date of birth	September 16, 1948
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