Bishop Calvo ordained, installed as bishop of Reno

Published: 2006-02-22

RENO, Nev. (CNS) -- An overflow crowd of more than 4,000 gathered in the Reno Hilton Pavilion Feb. 17 for the episcopal ordination and installation of Bishop Randolph R. Calvo as the seventh bishop of Reno. Bishop Calvo, who was born in Guam but moved to San Francisco with his parents in 1957, was pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Redwood City, Calif., when Pope Benedict XVI named him bishop of Reno in December. It was the first time a bishop of Reno had been actually ordained a bishop in northern Nevada. The hotel site was chosen because no church in the diocese was large enough to hold the crowd. Among those in attendance were Archbishop George H. Niederauer, installed as head of the San Francisco Archdiocese just two days earlier; Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles; and Archbishop (now Cardinal-designate) William J. Levada, a former archbishop of San Francisco who is prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. Retired Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco delivered the homily, saying that one of the responsibilities of a bishop is to build up evangelical hope amid the trials of the world.

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