John Michael Miller,
CSB (born July 9, 1946) is a Canadian
bishop
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of the
Catholic Church
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. He is the
Archbishop of Vancouver, succeeding to the position in 2009 after serving as its
coadjutor archbishop The term coadjutor (or coadiutor, literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence.
These include:
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and as Secretary of the
Congregation for Catholic Education
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. Prior to his appointment as bishop, he was a professor and academic administrator at the
University of St. Thomas St. Thomas University or University of St. Thomas may refer to:
*Saint Thomas Aquinas University, Colombia
*Saint Thomas Aquinas University of the North, Tucumán province, Argentina
*St. Thomas University (Canada), Fredericton, New Brunswick
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(UST) in
Houston
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.
Miller was born and raised in
Ottawa, where he completed his secondary education. He entered the Basilian novitiate after his first year of studies at
St. Michael's College in Toronto. He was
ordained a priest in 1975. He completed a
licentiate and
doctoral degree
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in
dogmatic theology
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and went on to teach at UST. After a five-year stint in Rome working at the
Secretariat of State, he returned to UST and became its president in 1997. He was appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education in 2002 and was
consecrated the following year. He was named coadjutor archbishop of the
Archdiocese of Vancouver
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver ( la, Archidioecesis Vancouveriensis) is a Roman Catholic Latin archdiocese that includes part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is the Holy Rosary Cathed ...
in 2007, before assuming the office of archbishop two years later. Miller has been noted for overseeing the construction of the archdiocese's new administrative headquarters and starting its
permanent diaconate
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program. He also appointed the committee that examined historical sex abuse by clergy in the archdiocese and published its findings in a report, purportedly the first in Canada.
Early life
Miller was born in
Ottawa,
Ontario
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, on July 9, 1946.
He was raised in an interdenominational household. His father, Albert Miller, was a Catholic who first worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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and later as a salesman; his mother, Katharine Rob, was a descendant of Scottish Loyalists and was a lifelong member of the United Church of Canada
The United Church of Canada (french: link=no, Église unie du Canada) is a mainline Protestant denomination that is the largest Protestant Christian denomination in Canada and the second largest Canadian Christian denomination after the Catholi ...
.[ Miller attended St. Joseph's High School in his hometown, where he was chosen as ]student body president
The student government president (sometimes called "student ''body'' president," "student ''council'' president" or "''school'' president") is generally the highest-ranking officer of a student union. While a student government group and a class p ...
and was classmates with Mary Lou Finlay
Mary Lou Finlay (born 1947) is a Canadian radio and television journalist, best known for hosting various programs on CBC Radio and CBC Television. . He had polio
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as a child, and the effects of the illness have persisted into adulthood.[ He consequently opted for non-]contact sport
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s and activities like debating, swimming, and school drama productions. One of these productions was ''Our Town
''Our Town'' is a 1938 metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 thro ...
'', in which he played George opposite Finlay as Emily.[
Miller went on to study at St. Michael's College in the ]University of Toronto
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. At the end of his first year of studies, he joined the Congregation of St. Basil
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,[ completing his noviceship and taking his first vows on September 12, 1966.][ ] He went back to St. Michael's as a seminarian, obtained a bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...
from the University of Toronto in 1969, and was awarded the Governor General's Academic Medal
The Governor General's Academic Medal is awarded to the student graduating with the highest grade point average from a Canadian high school, college or university program. They are presented by the educational institution on behalf of the Governor ...
for graduating first in his class.[ He undertook ]postgraduate studies
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The organization and struc ...
at the University of Wisconsin
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, receiving a master's degree
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in 1970. He then taught at St. Joseph's High School (his alma mater) for one year, before earning a Master of Divinity from St. Michael's in 1974.[ On June 29, 1975, Miller was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at ]St. Peter's Square
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by Pope Paul VI
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, and was one of 359 men ordained by the Pope in the same ceremony.[
]
Presbyteral ministry
After his ordination, Miller continued his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University
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in Rome
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, obtaining a licentiate in dogmatic theology
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in 1976 before being awarded a doctorate three years later (graduating '' summa cum laude'' in both instances). He then relocated to Houston, where he taught as a professor of dogmatic theology at the University of St. Thomas St. Thomas University or University of St. Thomas may refer to:
*Saint Thomas Aquinas University, Colombia
*Saint Thomas Aquinas University of the North, Tucumán province, Argentina
*St. Thomas University (Canada), Fredericton, New Brunswick
*St. ...
(UST). He later became the department chair and dean of its School of Theology, before being promoted to vice president of academic affairs in 1990.[ He moved back to Rome in 1992 to work as an assistant in the English-language division of the Secretariat of State.] He also taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University as an adjunct professor of theology from 1994 to 1996.
Miller returned to UST in 1997, becoming its seventh president on July 1 that year.[ During his tenure, he initiated a $65 million ]capital campaign
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, which was twice the amount of any previous fundraising goal set by the university. The drive raised $67 million and received generous contributions from local non-Catholic philanthropists such as George P. Mitchell
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According to ''The Economist,'' "few busine ...
and Jack S. Blanton.[ He appointed Sandra Magie as dean of UST's School of Theology in April 2003, making her one of only a handful of women to lead such a school at a Catholic institution. Miller became a naturalized American citizen in 2002.] He served as president up until his appointment as bishop, and was succeeded on an interim basis by Joseph McFadden, his immediate predecessor.
Episcopal ministry
Congregation for Catholic Education (2003–2007)
Miller was appointed as the Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education
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on November 23, 2003, as well as vice president of the Pontifical Work of Priestly Vocations.[ He was consequently assigned the ]titular see
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of Vertara Vartana (''Vertare is'') was a Roman- Berber town in Byzacena, Africa Proconsulare. It is identified with stone ruins in the area of Srâa-Ouartane, Tunisia.
Bishopric
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with the rank of archbishop. He was consecrated bishop
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on January 12, 2004, at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica
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.[ ]Zenon Grocholewski
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, the prefect of the aforementioned congregation, serving as the principal consecrator, with nearly 400 of Miller's friends and family travelling to Rome to be in attendance.[ During a special audience held the day after his episcopal ordination, ]Pope John Paul II
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characterized Miller's episcopal motto, ''Veritati Servire'' ("To Serve the Truth"), as "an eloquent summary of the commitment that has marked his priestly life".[
During his term of office, Miller drafted and co-signed a document titled "Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with Regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies".][ Published on November 4, 2005, it affirmed that "the Church, while profoundly respecting the persons in question, cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practise homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called 'gay culture'".][ While the accompanying letter stressed that the directive "does not call into question the validity of the ordination" of men with "homosexual tendencies" who are priests, it did call for them "not to be appointed as rectors or educators in seminaries". However, Miller was reportedly "very uncomfortable" with the extreme reading of the instruction by ]Tony Anatrella
Tony Anatrella (born 1941) is a French psychonanalyst and a priest of the Catholic Church. He has specialized in the study of adolescent sexuality and homosexuality. He has opposed civil privileges for homosexuals and the ordination of homosexuals ...
– who contended that gay men should be excluded from the priesthood altogether – on account of it "lacking balance".[
]
Vancouver (2007–present)
Miller was appointed coadjutor archbishop The term coadjutor (or coadiutor, literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence.
These include:
* Coad ...
of the Archdiocese of Vancouver
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver ( la, Archidioecesis Vancouveriensis) is a Roman Catholic Latin archdiocese that includes part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is the Holy Rosary Cathed ...
on June 1, 2007. This was intended to help Raymond Roussin
Raymond O. Roussin was the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver from 2004 to January 2009, when his resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI.
Curriculum vitae
Born, Raymond Roussin, on June 17, 1939, in St. Vital, Winn ...
, the ordinary of the archdiocese at the time, who had depression in the preceding years.[ Miller, who was transferred before the expiration of his five-year term as secretary,][ underscored that the move "wasn't in any way engineered by me".][ He succeeded Roussin as Archbishop of Vancouver on January 2, 2009,][ after the latter's resignation was accepted by ]Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the soverei ...
five years before the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Miller established the permanent diaconate
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in the archdiocese in 2011, with the first candidates of the program ordained four years later. He acted as principal consecrator at the episcopal ordination of Stephen Jensen, held in Prince George, British Columbia
Prince George is the largest city in northern British Columbia, Canada, with a population of 74,004 in the metropolitan area. It is often called the province's "northern capital" or sometimes the "spruce capital" because it is the hub city for ...
, on April 2, 2013. He also oversaw the construction of the new administrative headquarters of the Archdiocese of Vancouver, which opened in early 2015. Miller served as the principal consecrator at the episcopal ordination of Joseph Phuong Nguyen
Joseph Phuong Nguyen (born March 25, 1957) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. On June 1, 2016, Nguyen became the Bishop-elect of the Diocese of Kamloops. Prior to his appointment, Nguyen held the post of Vicar General for the A ...
at the Sandman Centre
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in Kamloops on August 25, 2016.
After more than 12 years of serving as Archbishop of Vancouver, Miller reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 in July 2021. Although his resignation was duly received by Pope Francis
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, Miller was asked to remain in the position for another three years, a request to which he acceded. In April of the following year, he was one of over 80 Catholic bishops to sign a "fraternal open letter" to the German Bishops' Conference
The German Bishops' Conference (german: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz) is the episcopal conference of the bishops of the Roman Catholic dioceses in Germany. Members include diocesan bishops, coadjutors, auxiliary bishops, and diocesan administrato ...
, expressing concern over the Synodal Path process being undertaken in Germany at the time.
Measures
Handling of clergy sex abuse
Miller formed a committee in 2018 to investigate cases of sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Vancouver going back to the 1950s. Its thirteen members consisted of clergy and laity, including four victim-survivors of clergy abuse. The committee published its report of its findings in November of the following year, determining that there were 36 such cases – of which 26 involved children – and five priests convicted on criminal charges. According to '' The Fifth Estate'', this marked the first time that a Latin Church
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diocese in Canada had publicized information about convicted priests.[ The official newspaper of the archdiocese, '' The B.C. Catholic'', billed it as "the first report of its kind released by any diocese in Canada".] In a letter announcing the report, Miller apologized for the past failings of the church, writing:
Views
Environmental positions
The Archdiocese of Vancouver sought and received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification for its new administrative headquarters. Miller recounted that this was done "in order to be as environmentally responsible as we could and practice good stewardship in how we use our resources". He later hosted a climate change symposium at the aforementioned headquarters in October 2015 to highlight ''Laudato si'
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'', the encyclical published by Pope Francis earlier that year. It saw the participation of Gregor Robertson, the mayor of Vancouver
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at the time, as well as other faith leaders and members of charity groups. Miller remarked how "we have a common desire and intention to address the harm we have inflicted on the Earth. We have abused the gifts of God". He added that it was "painfully clear that humans are not meant to have 'dominion' over nature, but to recognize they are 'inter-related' with the Earth".[
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LGBT issues
When asked about his opinion of homosexual relationships during a 2014 interview with the ''Vancouver Sun
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'', Miller stated that the faithful can follow the approach of Pope Francis regarding the matter. He underlined how the church's teaching is "very clear that homosexual persons are always to be respected and accorded the dignity due to everyone. We are all created in God's image and likeness".[
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Religious liberty
Miller supported Trinity Western University
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(TWU) in its efforts to establish a law school, stating that "to attempt to bar faith from the development of those who would practise the law is to undermine the foundations of conscience and integrity that in fact contributed to the modern Western legal system". He conveyed his discontent after the Supreme Court of Canada held in June 2018 that it was "proportionate and reasonable" to restrict the religious rights of TWU because of its admission policies. The law societies of British Columbia
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and Ontario
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had refused accreditation to TWU's proposed law school,[ because its students were obliged to sign a community covenant promising to abstain from all sexual intimacy outside of heterosexual marriage. Miller noted that the court had "undermined rights actually written in the '' Charter'' in favour of unwritten charter values", observing how the freedom of conscience and religion "is the first freedom guaranteed in the ''Charter''".
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Honours
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[
In addition to being a member of the ]Order of the Holy Sepulchre
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, Miller is also the Grand Prior of the Order's Lieutenancy of Canada–Vancouver. This encompasses British Columbia
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, Alberta
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, as well as the territory of Yukon
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.
Miller received an honorary degree
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from the Franciscan University of Steubenville
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in 2005. He was granted an honorary Doctor of Law
A Doctor of Law is a degree in law. The application of the term varies from country to country and includes degrees such as the Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D. or S.J.D), Juris Doctor (J.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and Legum Doctor (LL ...
s by the University of Dallas
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The university comprises four academic units: the Braniff Graduate School ...
on May 14, 2006, and delivered the commencement address
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The commencement ...
at that ceremony. He was conferred an honorary doctorate by the Australian Catholic University on August 1, 2007. Miller was also awarded honorary degrees from UST and Saint Michael's College
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in Vermont
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.
Published books
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References
External links
Archdiocese of Vancouver
''The Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II'' by J. Michael Miller (Google Books)
September 14, 2005, address at the Catholic University of America
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