Apostolic Administrator of Kyrgyzstan
H.E. Msgr. Anthony James Corcoran, S.J., was born on April 19, 1963, in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America. He obtained a degree in Political Science from Marquette University in Milwaukee, a Master’s degree in International Political Economics of Development from Fordham University in New York, and a Bachelor’s degree in Theology from Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was ordained a priest on 8 June 1996, for the Society of Jesus. He pursued further studies and held the following positions: licentiate in Spiritual Theology at Weston School of Theology (1997); director of the Interdiocesan Pre-Seminary in Novosibirsk (1998-2000 and 2007-2008); spiritual director of the same Pre-Seminary (2001-2005); parish priest of Saint Joseph Parish in Berdsk, diocese of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk (1998-2008); vicar general of the diocese of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk (1999-2008); doctorate in Moral Theology at Weston School of Theology (2006); superior of the Independent Russian Region of the Society of Jesus (2009-2017). He was appointed apostolic administrator of Kyrgyzstan on 29 August 2017.