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Richard Pates is the bishop of the Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa. Appointed to that post by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2008, Pates previously served as the auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis after his appointment by Pope John Paul II in 2000; he has served throughout the diocese since 1969, including overseeing the merger of two parishes and as vicar general. From 1981 to 1987 he was rector of St. John Vianney Seminary in St. Paul. From 1975 to 1981, Pates was the secretary to the Apostolic Delegation to the United States in Washington, D.C., where he also assisted as a priest at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. Pates earned his B.A. in philosophy and Latin from St. Paul Seminary before receiving his licentiate of sacred theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University. Pates was ordained in 1968.
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