| 词条 | R. Walker Nickless |
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| type = bishop | honorific-prefix = His Excellency, The Most Reverend | name = Ralph Walker Nickless | honorific-suffix = D.D. | title = Bishop of Sioux City | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | church = | archdiocese = Dubuque | province = | metropolis = | diocese = Sioux City | see = | appointed = November 10, 2005 | elected = | enthroned = January 20, 2006 | term_start = | quashed = | term_end = | predecessor = Daniel DiNardo | successor = | opposed = | other_post = | ordination = August 4, 1973 | consecration = January 20, 2006 | consecrated_by = Jerome Hanus, Charles J. Chaput, and Thomas Joseph Tobin | cardinal = | rank = | birth_name = Ralph Walker Nickless | birth_date = {{birth date|1947|5|28}} | birth_place = Denver, Colorado | death_date = | death_place = | buried = | nationality = | religion = Roman Catholic Church | residence = | parents = R. Walker Nickless (Father) E. Margaret McGovern Nickless (Mother) | spouse = | children = | occupation = | previous_post = | profession = | alma_mater = | signature = | coat_of_arms = | motto = SPEAK THE TRUTH IN LOVE | education = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms_alt = | feast_day = | venerated = | saint_title = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | attributes = | patronage = | shrine = | suppressed_date = | other = | ordinated_by = }}{{Infobox bishopstyles | name= Ralph Walker Nickless | dipstyle=
| offstyle=Your Excellency | relstyle=Bishop | image = Coat of arms of Ralph Walker Nickless.svg | image_size = 200px }} Ralph Walker Nickless (born May 28, 1947) is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Sioux City. BiographyNickless was born in Denver, Colorado, one of ten children born to R. Walker Nickless, Sr. and E. Margaret (McGovern) Nickless (his mother died in 2006, shortly after his episcopal consecration). He was graduated from Bishop Machebeuf High School in 1965. Nickless was ordained a priest for the Denver Archdiocese on August 4, 1973. Nickless was appointed the seventh Bishop of Sioux City on November 10, 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI.[1] He was consecrated and installed as bishop on January 20, 2006 in a ceremony at the Church of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Sioux City. Archbishop Jerome Hanus of the Archdiocese of Dubuque was the principal consecrator as the Dubuque Archdiocese is the metropolitan see for the state. The co-consecrators were Archbishop Charles Joseph Chaput of Denver and Bishop Thomas Joseph Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island. In a 2009 letter, Bishop Nickless stated his opposition to the Obama health care legislation on the grounds that it could provide free abortion coverage.[2] In August, 2009, Bishop Nickless went further, stating that "the Catholic Church does not teach that government should directly provide health care." Rather, he wrote, "[t]he proper role of the government is to regulate the private sector, in order to foster healthy competition and to curtail abuses. Therefore any legislation that undermines the viability of the private sector is suspect."[3] In April, 2009, Bishop Nickless publicly proclaimed his opposition to the University of Notre Dame's decision to invite President Barack Obama to be its commencement speaker.[4] In February, 2012, Bishop Nickless spoke during a webcast sponsored by the conservative group, Family Research Council, where he characterized an Obama Administration initiative to require health insurers to provide birth control coverage as having been sponsored by "the power of evil," and called for "followers of the light" to "stand up and vehemently oppose this."[5] See also{{portal bar|Biography|Catholicism|Iowa}}{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
References1. ^Hytrek, Nick. "Bishop Nickless Celebrates 10th Anniversary", Sioux City Journal, January 22, 2016 2. ^Bishop Nickless : "No Health Care Reform is Better than the Wrong Health Care Reform" 3. ^http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=34287.html{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Catholic Online, "Bishop R. Walker Nickles On Health Care." 4. ^http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2009/apr/09040106.html Lifesite News, "Four More Bishops Make Thirteen Opposing Obama at Notre Dame." 5. ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjCnlpFsDM External links
Episcopal succession{{S-start}}{{s-rel|ca}}{{Succession box |title=Bishop of Sioux City | before=Daniel DiNardo | after=incumbent| years= 2006-Present }}{{S-end}}{{Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City}}{{Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Nickless, R. Walker}} 9 : 1947 births|Living people|American Roman Catholic bishops|21st-century Roman Catholic bishops|Roman Catholic bishops of Sioux City|People from Denver|Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver|Religious leaders from Colorado|Catholics from Colorado |
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