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Archbishop Miller Named Archbishop of Vancouver
1/7/2009
 Former University of St. Thomas president Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, was recently named the archbishop of Vancouver. The announcement came in a press release issued by the Archdiocese of Vancouver on Jan. 2.
Archbishop Miller, who has served as coadjutor archbishop for the past 18 months, succeeded Archbishop Raymond Roussin, SM. The “second-in-command” role of coadjutor archbishop carries with it the automatic right of succession. To liturgically mark his succession, a special Mass on the Solemnity of the Conversion of Paul will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25 at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver.
“Archbishop Miller is an energetic man with a great vision for Vancouver, particularly with respect to school, health care, and pastoral planning, which is surely a realization of the synod directives,” Archbishop Roussin said.
Archbishop Miller was born in Ottawa July 9, 1946. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Toronto and his master’s at the University of Wisconsin in the field of Latin American studies. He taught high school for a year, completed his Master of Divinity at the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto, then spent from 1974 to 1979 in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1975 by Pope Paul VI. He earned his licentiate in 1976 and doctorate in 1979 in theology at the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University.
In 1979 Archbishop Miller joined the faculty of the Department of Theology at the University of St. Thomas, and subsequently, served as its chairman and as dean of the School of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary. In 1990 he was named the University’s vice president for Academic Affairs.
In 1992 Archbishop Miller was called to Rome, where he worked in the English-language section of the Secretariat of State of the Holy See until 1997, when he returned to Houston as president of the University of St. Thomas. Pope John Paul II appointed him Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education in 2003, and he was ordained an archbishop at St. Peter's Basilica on Jan. 12, 2004. He continued working at the Holy See until being appointed coadjutor archbishop of Vancouver.
He is a specialist on the papacy, modern papal teaching, and Catholic higher education, and has published seven books and more than 150 articles, scholarly, popular, and journalistic. His books include The Shepherd and the Rock: Origins, Development, and Mission of the Papacy (1995); and The Encyclicals of John Paul II (2nd ed., 200l).
Adapted story courtesy of The B.C. Catholic: The Official Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Vancouver
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