WASHINGTON (DC)
Washington Post
By Julie Zauzmer March 8
The newest bishop helping to lead the Washington area’s Catholics will be a lifelong resident of the region who has served as a priest in several of its churches.
The Rev. Roy Edward Campbell Jr. will serve as auxiliary bishop, one of three bishops who assist Cardinal Donald Wuerl in running the Archdiocese of Washington, the church announced on Wednesday morning.
Campbell, currently priest at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Largo, replaces Bishop Martin D. Holley, who served 12 years as auxiliary bishop in Washington before Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Memphis in August.
The archdiocese said that Campbell, 69, grew up in Southern Maryland and in the District. At Howard University, he majored in zoology with minors in anthropology and chemistry, the archdiocese said. He spent his career in banking while volunteering in Catholic churches, until eventually entering Pope St. John XXIII Seminary — a Massachusetts school for men who decide to enter the priesthood later in life — and being ordained in 2007. Since then, he has been a priest at several District churches: Saint Augustine’s, Immaculate Conception and Assumption.
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