A new Bishop for our Diocese

Bishop-elect of Baker Diocese, Fr Liam Cary

The Pope has nominated today March 8 as the new Bishop of the Baker Diocese, Fr Liam Stephen Cary, a priest of the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, presently pastor of St. Mary's Parish in Eugene. 

He was born on August 21, 1947 at Portland Oregon, and moved with his family to Prineville in Central Oregon at a young age. He attended the Ochocho Elementary schools  and the Prineville Junior High School. He then entered the Baker Diocese Seminary attending at Mount Angel High School Seminary. He pursued his philosophy studies at Mount Angel and  theology studies at Menlo Park, (California.) Having left the Seminary in 1970, he worked for a number of years among the poor and migrants in Chicago, Salinas, (California) and Eugene (Oregon.)

He returned to the Seminary for the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon in 1987, and followed his studies at the American Pontifical College and the Gregoriana University, both in Rome, attaining his licentiate in Moral Theology in 1992. He was ordained a priest on September 5, 1992 for the Archdiocese of Portland and has since served in these capacities: associate pastor at St. Joseph's in Salem (1992-1994,) member of the Educating for Chastity Task Force (1993-1997,) Director of Vocations (1994-1998,) Chaplain of the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon (1994-1997,) assistant pastor at St. Anne parish in Gresham (1997-1998) and again assistant pastor at St Luke Parish in Woodburn (1998.) 

 Fr Liam Cary at Sacred Heart, Medford.

He was made pastor of Sacred Heart parish in Medford (1998-2011.) He was also an administrator of Shepherd of the Valley parish in Central Point (2005.) Presently he is also Archdiocesan Consultor and a member of the Presbyteral Council. Besides English and Spanish, he also knows Italian and Latin.

                          Ad Multos Annos, Bishop Liam!