Please join the National Black
Catholic Congress (NBCC) in thanksgiving for Bishop Leonard Olivier as he
celebrates his 60th year of his ordination to the priesthood. Please join Bishop
Olivier in one of the celebrations listed below or say a prayer for him if you
are not able to attend.
Bishop Olivier was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana,
in 1923. Bishop Olivier was the fifth of eight children. He attended Sacred
Heart of Jesus grade school in town, St. Augustine Seminary in Bay St. Louis,
Mississippi and St. Mary's Seminary in Techny, Illinois and was ordained a
Divine Word Missionary in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi in 1951.
Bishop Olivier is a Fourth Degree Knight of St.
Peter Claver, a Fourth Degree Knight of St. John and Columbus. He served as the
Convener of the African American Catholic Bishops Subcommittee on Youth, the Ad
Hoc Steering Committee for the National Strategy on Vocations, Task Force Group
for American Adaptations to the Order of Christian Marriage, and the Liturgy
Committee of USCCB/NCCB. He was also a member of NCCB Committee on Bishops Life
and Ministry, Board Member of Convenant House Washington, Member of the
Inter-Faith Conference, Member of Maryland Catholic Conference, Board Member of
The National Black Catholic Congress (NBCC), Member of National Black Catholic
Clergy Caucus, and Episcopal Moderator of the Pan African Roman Catholic Clergy
Conference.
Celebration Schedule:
June 9, 2011 with the SVD Southern Province
community during its annual retreat at 4:00 p.m. Mass St. Augustine
Seminary, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
June 12, 2011 at my parish of origin in Lake
Charles, Louisiana, Sacred Heart of Jesus/St. Katharine Drexel, 11:00 a.m.
Mass, Sunday
June 19, 2011 at the Basilica of the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 12 noon Mass, feast of the Most Holy
Trinity
June 26, 2011 at St. Patrick in downtown
Washington, D.C., the Feast of Corpus Christi, 12 noon Mass
May God bless you, Bishop Olivier for all that
you have done for the black community!
Peace be with you always. Congratulations!!!!
