By Nate Tinner-Williams | Black Catholic Messenger

WASHINGTON — Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell, Jr., the nation’s most senior African-American Catholic active prelate and an advocate against injustice, says his ministry beyond the normal episcopal retirement age is one of speaking truth, remembering the forgotten, and advocating for Black Catholics.

The 78-year-old prelate has served in Washington since 2017 and is currently the only mainland Black Catholic bishop outside of the Southern United States. He spoke with BCM during the fall plenary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which took place in Baltimore earlier this month.