Bishop-designate Godfrey Mullen, 60, is a native son of the diocese and currently serves as its administrator.

The Bishop Designate of the Belleville Diocese grew up in Salem and still has family and many friends in the area. The ...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. – Pope Leo XIV has appointed Reverand Godfrey Mullen as the next Bishop of the Diocese of Belleville. Father Mullen is a native of the Belleville Diocese and has previously served as ...

Godfrey Mullen, the Benedictine monk who has been serving as the “diocesan administrator” for the Belleville Diocese and as ...

Pope Leo XIV has named Father Godfrey Mullen, a Benedictine monk, as the new bishop of Belleville, Illinois. The Vatican announced the appointment of Bishop-designate Mullen March 13. The see of the ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday announced a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York, tapping Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois to lead one of the nation’s largest and most influential ...

Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim leads the Roman Curia's annual Lenten retreat in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican Feb. 22, 2026. The Norwegian bishop was chosen by Pope Leo XIV to preach at the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Knoxville has announced the death of Richard F. Stika, its former bishop. He was the diocese’s longest-serving bishop prior to his resignation ...

NOW. JUST AHEAD OF A NEW SCHOOL YEAR, THE PRESIDENT AT BISHOP MIEGE HIGH SCHOOL IS OUT OF A JOB. WE’RE LEARNING HE WAS FIRED AMID AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS OF INAPPROPRIATE CONDUCT ...

Sheen won an Emmy Award, was featured on the cover of Time Magazine ‘and became one of the most influential Catholics of the 20th century’ (AP) The Vatican has given the green light, again, to beatify ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bishop James Golka of Colorado Springs will replace retiring Archbishop of Denver Samuel Aquila starting in March, Pope Leo XIV announced Saturday. Related ...