January 23, 2020

Most Reverend Nelson J. Perez To Visit The National Shrine Of Saint John Neumann And Casa Del Carmen Pre-School Academy

Archbishop-elect Nelson J. Perez will visit the National Shrine of Saint John Neumann and pray before the tomb of Saint John Nepomucene Neuman, C.SS.R., the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia. He will be joined by students from Saint Peter the Apostle Elementary School.  

This will be Archbishop-elect Perez’s first public appearance since being announced as the 14th Bishop and 10th Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia at a news conference held at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center on Thursday, January 23rd.

Friday, January 24, 2020 
9:00 a.m. 
Visit to the National Shrine of Saint John Neumann
1019 North 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123

 Additionally, Archbishop-elect Perez will meet with children ages 3 to 5 from the Casa del Carmen Pre-school Academy. Located in North Philadelphia, Casa is an agency of Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia that provides full-service, early childhood education programming.


Friday, January 24, 2020
2:00 p.m. 
Casa del Carmen Family Service Center
4400 North Reese Street
Philadelphia, PA 19140

 Background Information

On Thursday, January 23rd, Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. announced that  Pope Francis had named Most Reverend Nelson J. Perez as the 14th Bishop and 10th Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Archbishop-elect Perez’s Mass of Installation will take place on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul at 2:00 p.m.

Archbishop-elect Perez, 58, was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in 1989. He served here for many years at the parish level with a keen focus on ministry to Hispanic Catholics before being named an Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Rockville Centre in 2012. In July 2017, Pope Francis appointed him to serve as the 11th Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland.

The Holy Father has appointed Archbishop Chaput to serve as the Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia until the Installation of Archbishop-elect Perez on Tuesday, February 18th.

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Editor’s Note: To learn more about the National Shrine of Saint John Neumann, please visit https://stjohnneumann.org/.

To learn more about Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, please visit http://cssphiladelphia.org

Follow Bishop Perez on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BishopNPerez/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/BishopNPerez.

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Contact: Kenneth A. Gavin
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215-587-3747 (office)