Bishop Andrew Cozzens, a proud graduate of Benedictine College in Atchison Kansas, served as a missionary for young people with both Twin Cities based NET Ministries and the national college ministry Saint Paul’s Outreach before entering seminary. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in 1997 and after serving in two parishes was sent to Rome for doctoral studies, where he completed a doctorate degree in Sacramental Theology focusing on Saint John Paul II’s theology of the Priest as the Bridegroom of the Church. His book, A Living Image of the Bridegroom: The Priesthood and the Evangelical Counsels was published in 2020 through the Institute for Priestly Formation out of Omaha, an organization for which he also serves as president. After teaching in seminary formation for 8 years, Bishop Cozzens was ordained to the episcopacy in 2013 as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. On December 6, 2021, he was installed as the 8th bishop of the diocese of Crookston. He currently serves as the chair of the USCCB Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis where he has been tasked by the Bishops with leading a three-year National Eucharistic Revival which seeks to impact the United States Church at every level, strengthening Eucharistic belief and practice. As part of the Eucharistic Revival, at the direction of the Bishops, he has founded and is the first President of the National Eucharistic Congress Corporation and is overseeing the organizing of the first National Eucharistic Congress in the United States in almost 50 years.

Bishop Daniel J. Felton is the tenth Bishop of Duluth. He was born February 5, 1955, the son of Carol and the late Ken Felton and the oldest of five children. He attended St. Edward School in Mackville, Wisconsin and Appleton West in Appleton. He holds a bachelor’s degree from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, in religious studies and psychology; a master’s degree in theology from St. John University, Collegeville; and a licentiate of sacred theology and a master’s degree in social communications from the Gregorian University in Rome. Bishop Felton was ordained a priest on June 13, 1981, by Bishop Aloysius Wycislo for the Green Bay Diocese. His parish assignments in the Diocese of Green Bay included Holy Innocents in Manitowoc, St. Raphael the Archangel in Oshkosh, and St. Francis of Assisi in Manitowoc. Bishop Felton was also the director of affiliate affairs for the Catholic Telecommunications Network of America. Bishop Felton served in Green Bay as a member of the diocesan College of Consultors, Presbyteral Council, Bishop Advisory Council, Personnel Board, Diocesan Finance Council, St. Norbert Board of Trustees, and Silver Lake College Board of Directors. He was also a member of the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. At the time of his appointment as Bishop of Duluth in 2021, he had been serving the Green Bay Diocese as vicar general and moderator of the curia since 2014. Bishop Felton was ordained May 20, 2021, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Duluth. The principal co-consecrator was Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and his co-consecrators were Bishop David L. Ricken of Green Bay and Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois. As Bishop, he serves as a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Child and Youth Protection Committee.