{"id":170,"date":"2016-11-29T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=170"},"modified":"2016-11-29T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:58:57","slug":"cba-alumnus-named-auxiliary-bishop-for-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2016\/11\/29\/cba-alumnus-named-auxiliary-bishop-for-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"CBA alumnus named auxiliary bishop for Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2016\/11\/fisher.jpg?resize=201%2C251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fr. Robert Fisher '83\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fr. Robert Fisher &#8217;83<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, Pope Francis named Fr. Robert J. Fisher &#8217;83, an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Allen Vigneron called Fisher\u2014and Fr. Gerard W. Battersby, who was also named an auxiliary bishop last week\u2014 &#8220;two well-loved and respected priests.&#8221; Fisher, 57, has been pastor and rector of Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, Mich., since 2014. He\u00a0has a Detroit Mercy degree in Management Science.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am humbled by the Holy Father&#8217;s call to serve as an auxiliary bishop,&#8221; Fr.\u00a0Fisher said. &#8220;I am grateful for Archbishop Vigneron&#8217;s guidance, direction and fraternal support.\u00a0 With the prayers of the community, I will direct all my energy toward sharing Christ in and through the Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aod.org\/our-archdiocese\/newsroom\/news-releases\/2016\/november\/two-auxiliary-bishops-named-for-archdiocese-of-detroit\/\">Archdiocese&#8217;s web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Pope Francis named Fr. Robert J. Fisher &#8217;83, an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit. Archbishop Allen Vigneron called Fisher\u2014and Fr. Gerard W. Battersby, who was also named an auxiliary bishop last week\u2014 &#8220;two well-loved and respected priests.&#8221; Fisher, 57, has been pastor and rector of Shrine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2016\/11\/fisher-e1480536238426.jpg?fit=300%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-2K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}