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The ������ý delights in the of two friends to lead the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: the Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City and the Most Rev. Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas.

Archbishop Coakley, who presided over the ������ý’s 2017 Convocation ceremonies, was elected as the USCCB’s president on November 11 at its Fall Plenary Assembly in Baltimore. He previously served the USCCB as its secretary.

His vice president-elect, Bishop Flores, formerly headed the USCCB’s Committee on Doctrine as its president and served on the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod on Synodality. In 2019, he visited the ������ý’s California campus to deliver that year’s St. Thomas Day lecture.

The ������ý also extends its best wishes and gratitude to the Most Rev. Timothy P. Broglio, J.C.D., Archbishop for the Military Services, U.S.A., who spoke at the 2024 California Convocation, and now steps down as USCCB president following his three-year term.

“We send our prayers and congratulations to our friends Archbishop Coakley and Bishop Flores,” says Thomas Aquinas ������ý President Paul J. O’Reilly. “We pray that, in their new roles, they will continue to serve faithfully the Church and her members across the United States of America.”