Visitation Parish

Dear Visitation Parishioners, I want to take the opportunity to say farewell and thank you as I prepare to move to Joliet and begin my full–time work at the chancery. When Bishop Imesch told me that Visitation would be my first pastorate, I was thrilled to be assigned here. Indeed my hopes were fulfilled as [...]

Fourth Pastor of Visitation Parish June 2004 – June 2010 Named Auxiliary Bishop of Joliet – October 28, 2009 Ordained to the Episcopacy – January 19, 2010

On January 19, 2010 at 2:00 PM, in the Cathedral of Raymond Nonnatus, Joseph M. Siegel was ordained as the new Auxilliary Bishop, where he will assist Bishop Sartain in the pastoral administration of the Diocese of Joliet. Watch the Video Online

The following was taken from the Diocese of Joliet website: On January 19, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., in the Cathedral of Raymond Nonnatus, Joseph M. Siegel was ordained as our new Auxiliary Bishop, where he will assist Bishop Sartain in the pastoral administration of the Diocese of Joliet. He receives the office of teaching, governing [...]

Joliet, Illinois (October 28, 2009) His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, today named Fr. Joseph Siegel as a new auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Joliet. In making the announcement Bishop J. Peter Sartain said: I was delighted to learn that Pope Benedict had named Fr. Joseph Siegel as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Joliet. [...]