EPISCOPAL ORDINATION

Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP will be ordained to the episcopate by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11 a.m. A reception for the public will follow the ordination in the cathedral conference center. The archdiocese’s new auxiliary bishop is a San Francisco native and graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco. He entered the Dominican order in 1970 and was ordained a priest in 1976. Mass will be livestreamed at www.sfarchdiocese.org.