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Ralph Walker Nickless (born May 28, 1947) is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City. Nickless was born in Denver, Colorado, one of ten children born to R. Walker Nickless and E. Margaret McGovern Nickless. Nickless was ordained a priest of the Denver Archdiocese on August 4, 1973. He has four brothers and five sisters.
Nickless was appointed Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa on November 10, 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI. He was formally installed and consecrated as Bishop on January 20, 2006 in a ceremony at the Church of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Sioux City. Archbishop Jerome Hanus of the Archdiocese of Dubuque was the principal consecrator as the Dubuque Archdiocese is the metropolitan diocese for the state. The co-consecrators were Archbishop Charles Joseph Chaput of Denver and Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island. His mother died in early 2006, shortly after her son's episcopal consecration. [1]
In a 2009 letter, Bishop Nickless stated his opposition to the Obama health care legislation on the grounds that it could provide free abortion coverage. [2]
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- ^ "News::Parishioners Will Appeal Decision Not To Rebuild Church". www.ktiv.com. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
- ^ Bishop Nickless : "No Health Care Reform is Better than the Wrong Health Care Reform"
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