Most Rev.
John C. Wester

Ordained a priest on May 15, 1976.

Consecrated and installed as auxiliary bishop of San Francisco and appointed vicar general on September 18, 1998.

Appointed Bishop of Salt Lake City on January 8, 2007.

Archbishop John C. Wester was installed as the 12th Archbishop of Santa Fe on June 4, 2015, in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, NM. On June 29, 2015, the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, the liturgical event that recognizes the martyrdom of the two apostles and the foundation of the Roman church, Archbishop Wester joined 45 of his newly-named metropolitan archbishop brothers representing 34 countries to meet with Pope Francis, concelebrate Mass and receive their sacred palliums at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

"Abide in Christ"