Nov 18-Annual Credo Christ the King Dinner

Credo of the Catholic Laity

October 21, 2008

 

Credo and the Catholic Central Union of MO. are pleased  to present as our Christ the King Dinner Speaker His Excellency, Bishop James Vann Johnston Jr., Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield Cape Girardeau.  The topic of Bishop Johnston's talk will be "Nuptial Justice".

 

Bishop Johnston replaced the retiring Bishop John Leibrecht on January 24th^th 2008.   Please see his Bio (attached).

 

Comments from Mr. Henry Edwards of Knoxville Tennessee, a former parishioner of Bishop Johnston were printed in the Una Voce Arkansas Ozarks Regional Newsletter of February 2^nd 2008: "His personal characteristics are total orthodoxy, complete fairness, personal warmth and keen intellect. In addition to being a Holy Priest. the plain fact is that Springfield – Cape Girardeau's  gain is a loss that the Knoxville Latin Mass community feels deeply and painfully."

 

More  words of high praise come from a number of a number of his Knoxville past parishioners as well as his former Bishop, now Archbishop of Louisville, Joseph E. Kurtz.

 

We look forward to hearing from Bishop Johnston on Tuesday November 18^th.  He will be introduced by our own Bishop Robert Hermann.  The Dinner begins at 6:30pm, Tuesday, November 18, at the Crown Plaza Hotel located at 7750 Carondelet in Clayton, MO.  Cost is $25 per person.  Free parking at 7750 Carondelet or 7777 Bonhomme.

 

Tear off the coupon below and mail it with your check to Credo of the Catholic Laity, c/o Howard Brandt,

4386 Honeydew Ln,, St. Louis Mo. 63128 (Phone 314-894-6003)

 

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Name_____________________________________________________________
Address___________________________________________________________
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Enclosed is my check for #_____ persons at $25.00 each for the Bishop Johnston  Dinner.

 

My menu selections are:
Sliced Roast Beef Bordelaise (Qty)___ Chicken Parmesan  (Qty)___

Served with garden salad, appropriate vegetables, dinner roll, beverage and dessert.

 

 

Most Rev. James V. Johnston, Jr., D.D., J.C.L.

Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese

 

 

Bishop James V. Johnston, Jr. was born on October 16, 1959 in Knoxville, Tennessee.  He is the oldest of the four children of Vann and Patricia (Huber) Johnston.  He has two sisters and one brother.  Bishop Johnston attended Catholic primary and secondary schools:  St. Joseph School and Knoxville Catholic High School respectively.  As a youth he was very active in the Boy Scouts of America and was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout.

 

Following high school, he attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and obtained a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1982.  From 1982-1985, he worked in Houston, Texas for an engineering consulting firm and for an electric utility.  In 1985, he left his occupation to pursue a call to the priesthood.  From 1985-1990 he attended St. Meinrad College and School of Theology where he obtained his Master of Divinity degree.  He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Knoxville on June 9, 1990 at Holy Ghost Church in Knoxville, his home parish.

 

Bishop Johnston has served as an associate pastor at St. Mary Church in Oak Ridge and at St. Jude Church in Chattanooga, where he also served as a religion instructor at Notre Dame High School. He pursued graduate studies at the Catholic University of America, where he obtained a Licentiate in Canon Law (1996).  In 1996, he was named Chancellor of the Diocese of Knoxville and part-time associate pastor at Holy Ghost Church in Knoxville, where he served until 2002.  He presently serves as both Chancellor and Moderator of the Curia of the Diocese of Knoxville and is pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Church in Alcoa, along with its mission, St. Francis, Townsend.  He serves on the presbyteral council, and is a member of the diocesan college of consultors as well as a corporate member of Catholic Charities of East Tennessee.  He also is a member of the Catholic Public Policy Commission of Tennessee and is active with the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Engaged Encounter and the Catholic Cursillo movement.  He was named the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau on January 24, 2008. 

 

Before coming to Missouri, Bishop Johnston enjoyed hiking and exploring the mountains, woods, and terrain of East Tennessee and other portions of the United States and Canada.  In 2005 he, along with two other priests from Tennessee, received the Citizen's Award for Bravery from the U.S. Department of the Interior for helping save a father and two of his children from plunging over a waterfall in Glacier National Park in Montana.  The award is given to "private citizens for their heroic acts or unusual bravery in the face of danger."