The Most Reverend Frederick F. Campbell, D.D., Ph.D., was appointed Bishop of Columbus on October 14, 2004, by His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Bishop Campbell was installed as the 11th Bishop of Columbus at St. Joseph Cathedral, Columbus, on January 13, 2005. He has served as the shepherd of the Diocese of Columbus since then.
Among his many community involvements, Bishop Campbell sits on the boards of Ohio Dominican University, Mother Angeline McCrory Manor, The Catholic Foundation, the Kinder Women’s Care Center and the Pontifical College Josephinum, where he is the Vice Chancellor.
A native of Elmira, New York, Bishop Campbell earned a bachelor’s degree in history and foreign language from Saint Lawrence University, Canton, New York, and obtained master’s degree and doctorate in history from The Ohio State University. Prior to entering the seminary in 1976, he served as a history teacher at the Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, and as an assistant professor of history at California State College in San Bernardino. After studying at the Saint Paul Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota, he was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis by the Most Reverend John R. Roach at the Cathedral of Saint Paul, Saint Paul, on May 31, 1980. Father Campbell served as an associate pastor and pastor in the archdiocese until Pope John Paul II named him auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in 1999. He was ordained to the Episcopate by Archbishop Harry J. Flynn on May 14 of that year in the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
As of July 2002, Bishop Campbell began service as Rector and Vice President of the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity of the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. Bishop Campbell also served as Chairman of the Bishops’ Committee on the Diaconate from 2004 to 2006.
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The Most Reverend Frederick F. Campbell has served as the 11th Bishop of Columbus since 2005. Among his many community involvements, Bishop Campbell sits on the boards of Ohio Dominican University, Mother Angeline McCrory Manor, The Catholic Foundation, the Kinder Women’s Care Center and the Pontifical College Josephinum, where he is the Vice Chancellor.
A native of Elmira, New York, Bishop Campbell holds undergraduate and advanced degrees in history and foreign language. He has taught history at the Pontifical College Josephinum and California State College in San Bernardino. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis by the Most Reverend John R. Roach in 1980 and a bishop by Archbishop Harry J. Flynn in 1999.