Gregory Parkes
Gregory Lawrence Parkes JCL | |
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| Bishop of St. Petersburg | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Miami |
| Diocese | St. Petersburg |
| Appointed | November 28, 2016 |
| Installed | January 4, 2017 |
| Predecessor | Robert Nugent Lynch |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | June 26, 1999 by Norbert Dorsey, C.P. |
| Consecration | June 5, 2012 by Thomas Gerard Wenski, John Gerard Noonan, and Felipe de Jesús Estévez |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 2, 1964 |
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| Motto | NOMINI TUO DA GLORIAM |
| Styles of Gregory Lawrence Parkes | |
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| Reference style | |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
Gregory Lawrence Parkes (born April 2, 1964) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Parkes has been serving as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of St. Petersburg in Florida since 2017. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee in Florida from 2012 to 2016.
Early life and education
Gregory Lawrence Parkes was born in Mineola, New York. His brother Stephen Parkes is the Bishop of Savannah in Georgia. For primary school, Gregory Parkes attended St. Rose of Lima School in Massapequa, New York. Parkes graduated from Massapequa High School and attended Daytona Beach Community College. He earned a Bachelor of Finance degree from Florida State University and worked in banking in Tampa for seven years.[1][2]
Parkes decided to become a priest after attending morning masses and prayers. He studied for the priesthood at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary. In 1990, Parkes entered the Pontifical North American College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he received a Bachelor of Theology degree and a Licentiate in Canon Law in 2000.[3][1][4]
Priesthood
On June 26, 1999, Parkes was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Orlando by Bishop Norbert Dorsey.[5][6] After his ordination, Parkes served as the parochial vicar of Holy Family Parish in Orlando, Florida from 1999 to 2005. He was the founding pastor of Corpus Christi Parish in Celebration, Florida, serving there from 2005 to 2012. Parkes served as chancellor of the diocese from 2005 to 2012. He became its vicar general in 2009.[3]
Episcopal career
Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee
On March 20, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Parkes as the fifth Bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee. He attended his first Ad Limina meeting prior to consecration. Parkes was installed and consecrated on June 5, 2012, at St. Paul's Church in Pensacola, Florida. Archbishop Thomas Wenski was the consecrating prelate. Bishops John Noonan and Felipe Estévez were the co-consecrators.[5]
Bishop of St. Petersburg
On November 28, 2016, Pope Francis appointed Parkes as Bishop of St. Petersburg, succeeding Bishop Robert Lynch.[7] Parkes was installed at the Cathedral of Saint Jude the Apostle in St. Petersburg on January 4, 2017. For his pastoral motto, Parkes chose “To your name give the glory” from Psalm 115, Verse 1.[2] On November 14, 2018, Parkes was elected treasurer of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).[2]
On October 17, 2018, Parkes and the Diocese of St. Petersburg were named in a sexual abuse lawsuit by Mark Cattell, a Virginia resident. Cattell alleged that, at age nine, he had been abused in 1981 by Robert D. Huneke, a priest at Christ the King Parish in Tampa. In 1980, Huneke had sent a letter to the Bishop of Rockville Centre in New York, saying he had abused a boy named John Salveson years earlier in New York. On August 7, 1981, Salveson, now an adult, had written Bishop William Larkin about Huneke. Despite Salveson's complaints, the diocese did not removed Huneke from ministry until 1982.[8]
Parkes attended his second Ad Limina visit in 2019. While meeting with Francis, the Pope noticed Parkes' 6'8" height and asked if he played basketball. Parkes started a "View from the Top" podcast, giving an overview of the diocese, and his "Invitation to Worship" podcast, giving a quick overview of the weekly reading.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Previous Bishops of the Diocese". Catholic Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee. Retrieved November 28, 2021.
- ^ a b c "Most Reverend Gregory L. Parkes". Retrieved November 28, 2021.
- ^ a b "Pope Accepts Resignation of Bishop Doran of Rockford, IL, Names Msgr. David Malloy to Succeed Him; Names Father Gregory Parkes of Diocese of Orlando, FL, as Bishop Of Pensacola-Tallahassee, FL". United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
- ^ CNA. "Pope meets United States' newest and tallest bishop". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved November 28, 2021.
- ^ a b "Bishop Gregory Lawrence Parkes". catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved August 17, 2012.[self-published source]
- ^ "Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee". GCatholic.org. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
- ^ Harris, Elise (November 28, 2016). "Pope taps Tallahassee bishop to lead St. Petersburg diocese". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ "Man files suit against Diocese of St. Petersburg saying a Tampa priest sexually abused him in the 1980s, by Waveney Ann Moore, Tampa Bay Times (October 17, 2018)". www.bishop-accountability.org. Retrieved November 28, 2021.
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