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ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Most Reverend Joseph N. Perry
Titular Bishop of Rusicade and
Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago
 Bishop Joseph Perry was
appointed, by mandate of his Holiness, Pope John Paul II, Titular Bishop of Lead
[an historic former See in South Dakota] and Auxiliary to his Eminence, Francis
Cardinal George, OMI, Archbishop of Chicago, on 5 May 1998. His Episcopal
consecration took place 29 June, 1998 the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul at
Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral.
Bishop Perry, originally, a priest of the
Archdiocese of Milwaukee, was ordained a priest by the late Archbishop
William Edward Cousins, May 24, 1975 at St. John Cathedral, Milwaukee. After
an eighteen month assignment as associate pastor of St. Nicholas Parish,
Milwaukee, he was assigned to the Tribunal offices of the Archdiocese in
December 1976 and was sent for graduate studies in canon law at The Catholic
University of America, Washington D.C. His priestly ministry has been spent
with ecclesiastical law and education working primarily in the church courts
as advocate, then as judge in the court of appeals that services the
suffragan dioceses of Superior, La Crosse, Green Bay and Madison, and as
conciliation and arbitration officer. In 1983 he was appointed chief judicial
officer of the Tribunal for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, a post he held for
two six year terms until his appointment as pastor of All Saints Parish,
Milwaukee, in June 1995.
He served as the chaplain of the St. Thomas More
Lawyers Society of Wisconsin an association of Catholic lawyers and judges.
Until his appointment as bishop he was also adjunct professor of canon law
studies at Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Sacred
Heart Seminary, Hales Corners, Wisconsin. He continues as adjunct professor
of canon law at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois.
His episcopal duties, currently, sees him as
Episcopal Vicar for one of six Vicariates of the Archdiocese of Chicago, a
jurisdiction that covers 75 parishes and 2 missions and an Oratory and 55
elementary schools and 7 secondary schools, 96 priests and 250,000 Catholics.
Bishop Perry is National Chaplain for the Knights
of St. Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary and also vice-President of the Board
for the Black Catholic Congress, Baltimore, Maryland.
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