Meet Our Bishops

Most Rev. Lou Tylka

Born: 1970

Ordination: May 18, 1996

Appointed as bishop: May 11, 2020

School: University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois

Most Rev. Daniel R. Jenky, C.S.C.

Born: March 3, 1947

Ordination: April 6, 1974

Appointed as bishop: February 12, 2002

School: Notre Dame Indiana

Retired: March 3, 2022

Most Rev. John J. Myers, D.D., J.C.D.

Born: July 26, 1941

Ordination: December 17, 1966

Appointed as bishop: September 3, 1987

School: Pontifical Gregorian University
attending seminary at the North American College

Most Rev. Edward W. O'Rourke, D.D.

Born: October 31, 1917

Ordination: May 28, 1944

Appointed as bishop: July 15, 1971

School: St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois

Most Rev. John Baptist Franz, D.D.

Born: October 29, 1896

Ordination: June 13, 1920

Appointed as bishop: August 29, 1951

School: Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri

Most Rev. William E. Cousins, D.D.

Born: August 20, 1902

Ordination: April 13, 1927

Appointed as bishop: July 2, 1952

School: St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois

Most Rev. Joseph H. L. Schlarman

Born: February 23, 1879

Ordination: June 29, 1904

Appointed as bishop: June 17, 1930

School: University of Innsbruck, Austria

Most Rev. Edmund M. Dunne

Born: February 2, 1864

Ordination: June 24, 1887

Appointed as bishop: September 1, 1909

School: American College of the Immaculate Conception in Leuven, Belgium

Most Rev. John Lancaster Spalding

Born: June 2, 1840

Ordination: December 19, 1863

Appointed as bishop: May 1, 1877

School: Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West in Cincinnati