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Most
Reverend Roger Kaffer, auxiliary bishop of the
Diocese of Joliet (retired)
will celebrate mass to commence Sacred Heart Parish's New Evangelization
program. Bishop Kaffer's homily will draw from Pope Paul VI's Evangelii
Nuntiandi, Apostolic Exhortation on Evangelization in the
Modern World.
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[From the Diocese
of Joliet]
A Joliet native who attended the Cathedral of St. Raymond Grade School,
Auxiliary Bishop Roger L. Kaffer was ordained a priest May 1, l954, at the
Cathedral of St. Raymond by Bishop Martin D. McNamara. In 1985, he was
ordained a bishop by Bishop Joseph L. Imesch.
He studied for the priesthood at Quigley Preparatory Seminary in
Chicago and continued his studies at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in
Mundelein, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees and a
licentiate and bachelor of sacred theology. He studied at the
Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he received a licentiate of
canon law. He received a master's degree in education from DePaul
University and a doctorate of ministry from St. Mary of the Lake.
Among his positions in the diocese, he was assistant chancellor at the
Joliet Chancery, founding rector of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary,
principal of Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox and rector of
the Cathedral of St. Raymond. He also served at St. Paul the
Apostle, St. Raymond, St. Anthony, St. Bernard and St. Joseph parishes in
Joliet as a priest and lived with the brothers at Montini High School,
Lombard, and at St. Joseph Parish, Downers Grove, and Notre Dame Parish in
Clarendon Hills as a bishop.
