Catholicism Has Made it This Way . . .
Donald Joseph Kettler - ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, MN, 2013 present.
Donald was born to Norbert and Marguerite Kettler on November 26, 1944, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of four children, two boys and two girls. He was baptized on December 10, 1944, in Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Minneapolis. At an early age, he moved with his family to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. His father, a federal meat inspector, died in 1998. Donald attended St. Joseph Cathedral Grade School in Sioux Falls; then, for his secondary education, Trinity Prep School in Sioux City, Iowa. He went on to earn college degrees at Crosier Seminary, Onamia, Minnesota, and St. Johns University, Collegeville, Minnesota. He spent the summers of his seminary days working in parishes in Chicago, in impoverished neighborhoods, and at missions in South Dakota working among Native American Indian people.
He graduated in 1966 from St. Johns University, in Collegeville, MN, with a degree in philosophy and earned a masters of divinity degree from its seminary in 1970. He was ordained a priest in St. Joseph Cathedral, Sioux Falls, on May 29, 1970, by Bishop Lambert A. Hoch.
He was appointed Bishop of Fairbanks, Alaska, in 2002,
where he had to deal with sexual abuse cases in fact they forced the diocese there into bankruptcy.
January 3, 2014 Kettler
releases names of 33 priests accused of sexual abuse of minors who served in parishes within the Diocese of Saint Cloud, MN.
John F. Kinney eighth Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, MN; served as bishop of St. Cloud from 1995 to 2013, submitted his letter of resignation to Pope Benedict in June 2012. Catholic bishops are required by church law to submit their resignation at age 75.
Jerome G. Hanus seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, MN, 1987 1994
George H. Speltz - sixth Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, MN, 1968 1987
Peter W. Bartholome - fifth Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, MN, 1953 1968
Joseph F. Busch fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, MN, 1915 1953
James Trobec third Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, MN, 1897 1914
Martin Marty second Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, MN, 1895 1896
Otto Zardetti first Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, MN, 1889 1894
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Prov. 11:14