Fr. Steven Maekawa was ordained as the sixth Catholic bishop of the Fairbanks Diocese on Thursday.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks was without a bishop for over a year, until the ordination of Bishop Steven Maekawa on Thursday.
Around 1,500 people turned out for the event, including the Most Rev Chad Zelinsky and the Most Rev. Donald Kettler, the previous two bishops of the diocese; the Most Rev. Andrew Bellisario, archbishop of the Achorage-Juneau diocese; and several other bishops. The Apostolic Nuncio Most Rev. Christophe Cardinal Pierre, the Pope’s messenger to the United States, read aloud the letter from Pope Francis which indicated that Fr. Maekawa should become bishop of the diocese of Fairbanks.
During the ordination ceremony Maekawa made a series of vows to serve his office faithfully. He then received blessings from all of the bishops present and was given a set of symbolic insignia including a ring, a traditional hat known as a miter, and a staff called a crosier. Maekawa is the sixth bishop of the Fairbanks Diocese of Northern Alaska. He is no stranger to the state, having lived in Anchorage for the past seven years serving as the pastor of Holy Family Old Cathedral in Anchorage. Prior to that he also served as a Navy and Marine Reserve chaplain, and deployed to Afghanistan with the Army’s 25th Infantry Division. Maekawa joined the Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominicans, in 1990, and became a priest in 1998.
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