Archbishop of New York
Bishop Ronald Aldon Hicks was born on 4 August 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, in the metropolitan archdiocese of the same name. He attended Niles College Seminary, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. He was a volunteer for the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos Foundation. He carried out his ecclesiastical studies at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake and Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois. He subsequently qualified as a Doctor of Ministry at the same university. He was ordained a priest for the metropolitan archdiocese of Chicago on 21 May 1994. He has held the following offices: parish vicar of Our Lady of Mercy in Chicago (1994-996) and of Saint Elizabeth Seton in Orland Hills (1996-1999), dean of formation at Saint Joseph College Seminary (1999-2005), regional director of the charitable organization Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos in Mexico and El Salvador (2005-2009), faculty member and then dean of formation of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake and Mundelein Seminary (2010-2014), and vicar general (2015-2020). He was appointed titular bishop of Munatiana and auxiliary of Chicago on 3 July 2018, receiving episcopal consecration the following 17 September. On 17 July 2020 he was appointed bishop of the diocese of Joliet in Illinois.