Gerald Lee Vincke

Styles of
**Gerald Lee Vincke**
Styles of; Gerald Lee Vincke
	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

His Excellency, The Most Reverend

Gerald Lee Vincke
His Excellency, The Most Reverend; Gerald Lee Vincke
Bishop of Salina
Archdiocese	Kansas City
Diocese	Salina
Appointed	June 13, 2018
Installed	August 22, 2018
Predecessor	Edward Weisenburger
Orders
Ordination	June 12, 1999; by Carl Frederick Mengeling
Consecration	August 22, 2018; by Joseph Fred Naumann, Carl Frederick Mengeling, and Joseph G. Hanefeldt
Personal details
Born	July 9, 1964 (age 59); Saginaw, Michigan
Motto	Rich in mercy

Gerald Lee Vincke (born July 9, 1964) is an American prelate of the

Diocese of Salina

in Kansas since 2018.

Biography

Early life

Gerald Vincke was born on July 9, 1964, in Saginaw, Michigan, one of 10 children of Henry and Fidelis Vincke. He attended New Lothrop High School in New Lorthrop, Michigan. After his high school graduation, Vincke enrolled at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. He receive an Associates Degree in journalism in 1985 and a Bachelor of Science degree in public relations and marketing in 1986.^[1]

After graduating from Ferris State, Vincke decided to become a priest. In late 1986, he started studying philosophy at Thomas More College in Crestview, Kentucky and theology at the nearby Athenaeum of Ohio Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. Vincke then returned to Michigan to attend Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. He graduated from Sacred Heart with a Master of Divinity degree in 1999.^[1]

Priesthood

On July 12, 1999, Vincke was ordained to the priesthood for the

parochial vicar at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Anne Arbor, Michigan. He left St. Thomas in 2001 to attend Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska to study spirituality.^[1]

On his return to Michigan in 2002, Vincke became director of the Bethany House Youth Retreat Center in Lansing. In 2003, Vincke was also named as director of seminarians for the diocese, where he would serve for the next seven years. He left Bethany House in 2004.[1]In 2005, he assumed the role of weekend pastor, in addition to his other responsibilities, at St. Thomas Parish in East Lansing, Michigan. In 2006, Mengeling appointed Vincke as chair of the Formation Department for the diocese, relinquishing his other job positions. ^[1]

Vincke went to Rome in 2010 to serve as spiritual director at the Pontifical North American College. Pope Benedict XVI named him as a chaplain to his holiness in 2012. Returning to Lansing five years later, Vincke was assigned as pastor of Holy Family Parish in Grand Blanc, Michigan.

Bishop of Salina

Maria Goretti, a sainted girl who forgave her killer on her deathbed.^[5]In January 2020, it was announced that McCarrick, by then laicized

, had moved to an undisclosed location.

In February 2021, Vincke assumed the additional responsibility of being apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Dodge City. Its bishop, John Brungardt, was being investigated by the Vatican and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation for allegations of child sexual abuse.^[6] On March 23, 2022, Bishop Brundgardt was cleared of the allegations and reassumed leadership of the Diocese of Dodge City.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Pope Francis Names Rev. Msgr. Gerald L. Vincke as Bishop of Salina". US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Bishop Gerald (Jerry) Lee Vincke [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
^ "Congratulations Most Reverend Gerald Vincke". Faith Magazine Diocese. October 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
^ "Statement on Archbishop Theodore McCarrick's Residence - Archdiocese of Washington". Archdiocese of Washington. Archived from the original on October 23, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
^ Vincke, Gerald (September 2018). "Why I Said "Yes"". Diocese of Salina. Archived from the original on October 12, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
^ "Bishop Vincke named temporary Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Dodge City". Catholic Diocese of Salina. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
^ "Dodge City's Bishop Brungardt cleared of abuse allegations". The Pillar. March 24, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2023.

External links

Diocese of Salina

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Edward Weisenburger	Bishop of Salina 2018–present	Succeeded by Incumbent

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[:0-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Pope Francis Names Rev. Msgr. Gerald L. Vincke as Bishop of Salina". US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Retrieved February 10, 2024.

[:1-2] "Bishop Gerald (Jerry) Lee Vincke [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved February 10, 2024.

[3] "Congratulations Most Reverend Gerald Vincke". Faith Magazine Diocese. October 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2023.

[4] "Statement on Archbishop Theodore McCarrick's Residence - Archdiocese of Washington". Archdiocese of Washington. Archived from the original on October 23, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2018.

[Vincke_statement_re_McCarrick_(2018)-5] Vincke, Gerald (September 2018). "Why I Said "Yes"". Diocese of Salina. Archived from the original on October 12, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018.

[6] "Bishop Vincke named temporary Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Dodge City". Catholic Diocese of Salina. Retrieved January 8, 2022.

[7] "Dodge City's Bishop Brungardt cleared of abuse allegations". The Pillar. March 24, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2023.

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