James Terry Steib | |
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Bishop Emeritus of Memphis | |
Diocese | Memphis |
Appointed | March 24, 1993 |
Installed | May 5, 1993 |
Retired | August 23, 2016 |
Predecessor | Daniel M. Buechlein |
Successor | Martin Holley |
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Orders | |
Ordination | January 6, 1967 by Philip Matthew Hannan |
Consecration | February 10, 1984 by John L. May, George Joseph Gottwald, and Charles Roman Koester |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Motto | The Lord is my light |
Styles of James Terry Steib | |
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Reference style | |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
James Terry Steib, S.V.D. (born May 17, 1940) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Steib served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis in Missouri from 1983 to 1993. He became the first African-American bishop of the Diocese of Memphis in Tennessee in 1993, serving there until 2016.