Craig John Neumann de Paulo is an American Old Catholic bishop. He is the primate of the Old Catholic Confederation and its archbishop in the United States. Life and career De Paulo received a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1995 from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. De Paulo was ordained as a deacon and priest in the United States in the Ukrainian Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church within the Roman Catholic Church. In 2007, he was installed as pastor in East McKeesport, Pennsylvania. After leaving the Roman Catholic Church, he became a bishop of the Old Catholic Confederation - formed in 2013 - and became its primate and Archbishop of the United States. On December 25, 2013, the Church of the Province of West Africa's archbishop, Solomon Tilewa Johnson, appointed and licensed de Paulo as his representative (styled as "episcopal commissary") for North America. Works * * * * * * Honors *House of Savoy: Knight of the Order of Merit of Savoy
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