Robert Barron was born on November 19, 1959, in Chicago. He has keynoted several conferences and events over the world, including the 2016 World Youth Day and the 2015 World Meeting of Families.īarron's 2016 film series, Catholicism: The Pivotal Players, was syndicated for national television in the United States. In addition, he has been invited to speak about religion at the headquarters of Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Īs of November 2022, Barron's regular YouTube videos have been viewed over 116 million times he has over 3 million followers on Facebook, 360,000 on Instagram, and 215,000 on Twitter. He has been informally called the "bishop of social media" and the "bishop of the Internet". He is a religion correspondent for NBC and has also appeared on Fox News, CNN, and EWTN. He served as rector at Mundelein Seminary from 2012 to 2015 and as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2015 to 2022.īarron has published books, essays, and articles on theology and spirituality. He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire, and was the host of Catholicism, a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS. Robert Emmet Barron (born November 19, 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester since 2022.
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