Bishop Barron goes east: LA says farewell to the new bishop of Winona-Rochester

Vol. 7, No. 16

August 12, 2022

On the cover: Bishop Robert E. Barron officially took up his new assignment as the new bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, at a July 29 Installation Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Rochester. On Page 10, friends and collaborators look back on his nearly seven years as an auxiliary bishop in the Santa Barbara Pastoral Region and say farewell to a shepherd who they believe was “the right bishop at the most difficult of times.”