Nebraska priest serving at Vatican named bishop of Wichita

Published: 2005-01-28

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Msgr. Michael O. Jackels, a priest of the Diocese of Lincoln, Neb., who has served for the past eight years at the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has been named bishop of Wichita, Kan. The appointment was announced Jan. 28 in Washington by Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic nuncio to the United States. Bishop-designate Jackels, a 50-year-old native of Rapid City, S.D., succeeds Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, who was appointed bishop of Phoenix in November 2003. His episcopal ordination is scheduled for April 4 at the Church of the Magdalen in Wichita. "I am certainly honored by the Holy Father's choice and by the confidence that he has placed in me, but also humbled by it," Bishop-designate Jackels said at press conference at the chancery in Wichita.

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