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Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has elevated to episcopal dignity, assigning him the titular see of Aeto, the Reverend Father Anthony James Corcoran, S.J., apostolic administrator of Kyrgyzstan.
H.E. Msgr. Anthony James Corcoran, S.J., was born on April 19, 1963, in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America. He obtained a degree in Political Science from Marquette University in Milwaukee, a Master’s degree in International Political Economics of Development from Fordham University in New York, and a Bachelor’s degree in Theology from Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
He was ordained a priest on 8 June 1996, for the Society of Jesus.
He pursued further studies and held the following positions: licentiate in Spiritual Theology at Weston School of Theology (1997); director of the Interdiocesan Pre-Seminary in Novosibirsk (1998–2000 and 2007–2008); spiritual director of the same Pre-Seminary (2001–2005); parish priest of Saint Joseph Parish in Berdsk, diocese of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk (1998–2008); vicar general of the diocese of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk (1999–2008); doctorate in Moral Theology at Weston School of Theology (2006); superior of the Independent Russian Region of the Society of Jesus (2009–2017).
He was appointed apostolic administrator of Kyrgyzstan on 29 August 2017. (EG) (Fides News Agency, 25/5/2026)
