Bishop Robert Barron – Word on Fire
by Admin Office
Robert Emmet Barron is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022. He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire, and was the host of Catholicism, a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS.
Bishop Robert Barron – Word On Fire
Word on Fire is evangelical; it proclaims Jesus Christ as the source of conversion and new life. Word on Fire is Catholic; it utilizes the tremendous resources of the Roman Catholic tradition—art, architecture, poetry, philosophy, theology, and the lives of the saints—in order to explain and interpret the event of Jesus Christ.
Born: 1959 (age 64 years), Chicago, IL
Influenced by: Thomas Aquinas, Pope John Paul II, MORE
Appointed: June 2, 2022
Church: Catholic Church
Consecration: September 8, 2015; by José Horacio Gómez
Diocese: Winona–Rochester
