Roy Edward Campbell

Styles of
**Roy Edward Campbell**
Styles of; Roy Edward Campbell
Reference style	His Excellency; The Most Reverend;
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

His Excellency, The Most Reverend

Roy Edward Campbell, Jr.
His Excellency, The Most Reverend; Roy Edward Campbell, Jr.
Auxiliary Bishop of Washington
	Auxiliary Bishop Campbell (2019)
See	Archdiocese of Washington
Appointed	March 8, 2017
Installed	April 21, 2017
Orders
Ordination	May 26, 2007; by Donald Wuerl
Consecration	April 21, 2017; by Donald Wuerl, Martin Holley, and Barry Christopher Knestout
Personal details
Born	November 19, 1947 (age 77); Pomonkey, Maryland, US
Motto	Do whatever He tells you

Roy Edward Campbell, Jr. (born November 19, 1947) is an African-American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Washington in the District of Columbia and Southern Maryland since 2017.

Biography

Priesthood

Roy Campbell was born on November 19, 1947, in Pomonkey, Maryland, to Roy Edward Campbell, Sr. and Julia Ann (Chesley) Campbell. He has three brothers and two sisters. Roy Campbell attended Bruce Elementary Public School and then Shrine of the Sacred Heart School. Campbell graduated from Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington in 1965.^[1]^[2]

After high school, Campbell entered Howard University in Washington. He was award a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology, with minor concentrations in chemistry and anthropology. After college, Campbell worked as a bank teller at Suburban Trust Company in Maryland to finance his graduate school studies. He received a Master of Arts degree in retail banking from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1992.^[1]^[2]

Campbell worked in banking until his retirement in 2002. Having decided at that point to become a priest, he entered the Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Massachusetts, in 2003. He was awarded a Master of Divinity degree in 2007.^[1]

Priesthood

On May 26, 2007, Campbell was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Washington by Cardinal Donald Wuerl.^[3] Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick provided Campbell with an exemption for his age. After his 2007 ordination, the archdiocese assigned Campbell as parochial vicar at St. Augustine Parish in Washington.^[1]

In 2008, Campbell was appointed pastor of Assumption Parish in Washington, then moved in 2010 to serve as pastor of Saint Joseph Parish in Largo, Maryland.^[1]^[2]

Auxiliary Bishop of Washington

Pope Francis appointed Campbell as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Washington on March 8, 2017.^[2]^[1] On April 21, 2017, Campbell was consecrated as a bishop by Cardinal Wuerl at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, with Bishops Martin Holley and Barry Knestout serving as co-consecrators.^[3]

Campbell's episcopal coat of arms contains a lion derived from McCarrick's coat of arms and a tower derived from Wuerl's coat of arms.^[1]On March 21, 2019, Campbell was elected president of the National Black Catholic Congress (NBCC), succeeding Bishop John Ricard.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Auxiliary Bishops". Archdiocese of Washington. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Pope Names Priest as New Auxiliary Bishop of Washington". US Conference of Catholic Bishops. March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Bishop Frederick Francis Campbell [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
^ Szczepanowski, Richard (May 22, 2019). "Bishop Campbell elected president of the National Black Catholic Congress". Catholic Standard. Retrieved 17 October 2019.

External links

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington Official Site

Episcopal succession

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by -	Auxiliary Bishop of Washington 2017-Present	Succeeded by -

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[:0-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Auxiliary Bishops". Archdiocese of Washington. Retrieved 2024-04-11.

[:1-2] "Pope Names Priest as New Auxiliary Bishop of Washington". US Conference of Catholic Bishops. March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 8, 2017.

[:2-3] "Bishop Frederick Francis Campbell [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2024-04-12.

[4] Szczepanowski, Richard (May 22, 2019). "Bishop Campbell elected president of the National Black Catholic Congress". Catholic Standard. Retrieved 17 October 2019.

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