Bishop of Providence
Bishop Bruce Alan Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., was born on 8 June 1967 in Toledo, Ohio, in the diocese of the same name. He gave his first vow as Redemptorist of the Province of Baltimore on 10 September 1988. He attended Saint Alphonsus College in Suffield, Connecticut, and the Holy Redeemer College in Washington, carrying out his theological studies at the Washington Theological Union. He was ordained a priest on 7 May 1994 for the Congregation of the Holy Redeemer. He has held the following offices: parish vicar of Saint Cecilia in Manhattan (1994-1996) and of teh Immaculate Conception in the Bronx, New York (1996-1998), missionary at Seelos House in Vieux Fort in Saint Lucia, West Indies (1998-2000), parish priest of Saint Boniface (2000-2006) and of Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2006-2011), and of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Baltimore, Maryland (2016-2020). On 10 June 2020, he was appointed titular bishop of Croe and auxiliary of Baltimore, receiving episcopal consecration the following 18 August.