Most Rev. Robert J. Baker, S.T.D. Bishop of Birmingham, AL
Bishop Robert Joseph
Baker, S.T.D., was ordained a priest on March 21, 1970
at his home parish of St. Wendelin in Fostoria, Ohio. He
holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a master’s
in divinity from the Pontifical College Josephinum in
Columbus, Ohio. He received his doctorate in dogmatic
theology from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1977
and served on the faculty of St. Vincent de Paul
Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida, before being
appointed pastor of the Cathedral of St. Augustine in
1984.
While serving as the Cathedral’s pastor he helped to
establish a soup kitchen, shelter house and a farm for
the homeless and addicted.
He was appointed bishop of Charleston, South Carolina,
by Pope John Paul II on July 12, 1999.
He served on the Florida Catholic Conference’s Committee
on Capital Punishment. He is co-editor of three books,
“Welcome the Stranger: Contemporary Ministry in the
Church of Florida” (1983), “Historic Catholic Sites of
St. Augustine” (1988), and “When Did We See You, Lord?”
(2005). He also penned a pastoral letter in 2005 on “The
Redemption of Our Bodies: The Theology of the Body and
Its Consequences for Ministry in the Diocese of
Charleston.”
He was appointed Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama on
August 14, 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI and celebrated his
Installation Mass on October 2, 2007.
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