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Bishop Lewandowski

Son of St. Alphonsus

April 28, 2025
By Archbishop William E. Lori
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Bishops, Charity in Truth, Commentary, From the Archbishop

In early April, it was announced that Pope Francis appointed Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., to be the next bishop of Providence, R.I. The Holy Father could not have chosen a better bishop to guide that important diocese in the years ahead.

Diocese of Providence welcomes Bishop Lewandowski

April 8, 2025
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Bishops, Feature, Local News, News

A few hours after it was announced in Rome and Washington April 8 that Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., would be the new bishop of the Diocese of Providence, R.I., he greeted the people of his new flock in an emotional news conference from the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence.

Pope Francis names Bishop Lewandowski to Diocese of Providence, R.I.

April 8, 2025
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Bishops, Feature, Local News, News

Pope Francis has named Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., as the new bishop of the Diocese of Providence, R.I. The appointment was publicized in Washington April 8 by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Bishop Lewandowski’s mother, Frances, dies at 79

March 5, 2024
By Catholic Review Staff
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries

Frances Marie Whitney, the mother of Auxiliary Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., died March 2 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was 79.

Former East Baltimore Redemptorist pastor dies at 85

October 1, 2021
By Matthew Liptak
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries

Redemptorist Father Richard Poetzel, a former pastor of his home parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown and Our Lady of Fatima in Baltimore, died Sept. 24 at the St. John Neumann community at Stella Maris in Timonium.

Bishop Lewandowski calls racism the enemy of synodality

October 1, 2021
By Priscila González de Doran
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Synodality

Bishop Lewandowski’s workshop focused on pastoral answers to racism. Building on the theme of the conference, “Living the synodality in Hispanic ministry,” the bishop called racism the “enemy of synodality.”

Bishop Madden will step down as urban vicar, Bishop Lewandowski to succeed him

September 1, 2021
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, News, Urban Vicariate

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Denis J. Madden will step down from his role as urban vicar for the Archdiocese of Baltimore effective Oct. 1. Auxiliary Bishop Bruce Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., will become the new urban vicar while continuing his work as episcopal vicar for Hispanic Catholics.

Taking a cue from immigrants’ home countries, messages about COVID-19 taken into hard-hit neighborhoods

October 19, 2020
By Patricia Zapor
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Bishop Lewandowski, Catholic Charities, Coronavirus, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News

With infection rates rising around Maryland, as elsewhere in the country, the timing couldn’t be better for the sound truck’s launch. As of Oct. 19, the 21224 ZIP code had 2,117 reported cases of COVID-19, second only in the state to the Silver Spring/Langley Park ZIP code, another area densely populated by immigrants.

Health officials, archdiocese team up to reach Hispanic communities hard-hit by COVID

October 16, 2020
By Tim Swift
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Coronavirus, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News

Working with Catholic Charities of Baltimore and Auxiliary Bishop Bruce Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., the Maryland Department of Health announced Oct. 16 the creation of a mobile education unit and a health hotline to reach Hispanic communities that have been especially hard-hit by the coronavirus epidemic.

Actividades rurales daban vida a los años formativos del obispo Lewandowski

September 2, 2020
By Erik Zygmont
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, En Español, News

Bishop Bruce Lewandowski and his siblings, Mary, Paula and Joseph, grew up on six acres of farmland in Lima, Ohio, with their parents, Robert and Frances.

From left, the Lewandowski siblings: Joseph, Sister Mary Francis, Bruce and Paula in 1987. (Courtesy Lewandowski family)

Bishop Lewandowski’s formative years colored by rural pursuits

September 2, 2020
By Erik Zygmont
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Feature, Local News, News

Bishop Bruce Lewandowski and his siblings, Mary, Paula and Joseph, grew up on six acres of farmland in Lima, Ohio, with their parents, Robert and Frances.

The Hispanic community in Highlandtown celebrated then-Father Lewandowski’s elevation to auxiliary bishop

Highlandtown cheers as ‘Padre Bruce’ becomes Bishop Lewandowski

September 1, 2020
By Daniel Zawodny
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Feature, Local News, News

Sagrado Corazón de Jesús parishioners laud Bishop Bruce Lewandowski as a unifying influence in one of the most diverse parishes within the archdiocese.

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