New bishop of Sioux City ordained

Published: 2006-01-26

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (CNS) -- With his ordination Jan. 20 at Sioux City's Church of the Nativity, Bishop R. Walker Nickless became the seventh bishop of Sioux City. "The mission has begun," the 58-year-old bishop said in closing remarks at the ordination. "May God the Father bless all of our efforts. May Jesus Christ continue to be the way, the truth and the life and may his Holy Spirit guide us always and be at our side." Nearly 1,000 people attended the two-and-one-half hour service. They included 34 bishops, an abbot and more than 130 priests and deacons. Archbishop Jerome G. Hanus of Dubuque was the chief ordaining bishop. Other ordaining bishops were Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver, where Bishop Nickless was vicar general before his Sioux City appointment, and Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, R.I., a seminary classmate of Bishop Nickless.

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