Kurt Burnette
His Grace, The Most Reverend Kurt Richard Burnette | |
|---|---|
| Eparch of Passaic | |
 | |
| Church | Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church |
| Metropolis | Pittsburgh |
| Diocese | Passaic |
| Appointed | 29 October 2013 |
| Installed | 4 December 2013 |
| Predecessor | William Charles Skurla |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 26 April 1989 by John Bilock |
| Consecration | 4 December 2013 by William C. Skurla, John Michael Kudrick and Gerald Nicholas Dino |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Kurt Richard Burnette |
| Born | 7 November 1955 Fakenham, Norfolk, England, UK |
| Nationality | American |
| Denomination | Ruthenian Catholic Church |
| Previous post(s) |
|
| Education | J.D., Ph.D., J.C.L. |
| Alma mater | Rice University, University of Utah, Pontifical Oriental Institute |
| Styles of Kurt Richard Burnette | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Reference style |
|
| Spoken style | His Grace |
| Religious style | Eparch |
Kurt Richard Burnette (born 7 November 1955 at Sculthorpe Royal Air Force Base in Norfolk, England, UK) is the Bishop or Eparch of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic.[1] He succeeded Bishop William C. Skurla, who was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Pittsburgh in 2012. Burnette was appointed on October 29, 2013, by Pope Francis as bishop, and enthroned in a Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel in Passaic, New Jersey on December 4, 2013.[2] On 20 October 2020, Pope Francis named Kurt Richard Burnette as apostolic administrator of the Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto.[3] [4]
See also[]
- Catholic Church hierarchy
- Catholic Church in the United States
- Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
- List of Catholic bishops of the United States
- Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops
References[]
- ^ "Pope Francis Names Father Kurt Burnette As Head Of The Byzantine Eparchy Of Passaic". October 29, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
- ^ "Fr. Kurt Burnette made head of Ruthenian Eparchy of Passaic". CNA. October 29, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2012.
- ^ "Resignation of bishop of the eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto of the Slovakians of Byzantine rite, Canada, and appointment of apostolic administrator sede vacante". press.vatican.va. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ^ "Bishop". Eparchy of St. Cyril & Methodius. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
External links[]
 |
Wikiquote has quotations related to: Kurt Burnette |
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kurt Richard Burnette. |
- Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Passaic Official Site
- His Grace, Most Reverend Kurt R. Burnette - The Carpathian Connection
- Kurt Burnette, Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic
Episcopal succession[]
Catholic Church | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| History (Timeline Ecclesiastical Legal) |
| ||||||||||||
| Theology (Bible Tradition; Catechism) |
| ||||||||||||
| Philosophy |
| ||||||||||||
| Saints |
| ||||||||||||
| Organisation (Hierarchy Canon law Laity Precedence By country) |
| ||||||||||||
| Culture |
| ||||||||||||
| Media |
| ||||||||||||
| Religious orders, institutes, societies |
| ||||||||||||
| Associations of the faithful |
| ||||||||||||
| Charities |
| ||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
 | This article about an Eastern Catholic bishop from the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
Categories:
- 1955 births
- American Eastern Catholic bishops
- People from Fakenham
- People from King's Lynn and West Norfolk (district)
- Ruthenian Catholic bishops
- 21st-century Eastern Catholic bishops
- Living people
- Bishops appointed by Pope Francis
- Eastern Catholic bishop stubs
- American bishop stubs