CHARLOTTE — Bishop Peter Jugis announces the appointment of a second vicar of education to help oversee the growing work of the Education Vicariate.
Father Timothy Reid is becoming the Vicar for Education: For Catholic Schools. Father Roger Arnsparger, the current education vicar, will become Vicar for Education: For Catechetical Formation.
The Education Vicariate covers an extensive range of programs and ministries for faith formation and Catholic education for people of all ages — everything from the 19 Catholic schools across the diocese to campus ministry, young adult, youth and adult faith formation and lay ministry, to the RCIA program.
The vicariate also oversees the Bishop’s Youth Pilgrimage and Totus Tuus summer faith formation program, diocesan youth retreats, and Campus Ministry service projects.
It also provides catechist training and certification and coordinates work among the parishes’ religious education directors, and it organizes the annual diocesan catechetical conference.
The office also organizes the diocese’s annual Eucharistic Congress each September.
The growth of the diocese’s education and evangelization-related activities prompted the move to split the office and share the leadership duties, Father Arnsparger said.
“All of the departments of the Education Vicariate will still be one team continuing to share professional support, encouragement, resources, ideas, programs and vision for Catholic education,” he noted in an Aug. 20 announcement to employees.
Father Roger Arnsparger
Father Reid is the pastor of St. Ann Church in Charlotte and also serves as the vicar forane for the Charlotte vicariate of parishes.
He will oversee the 19 Catholic schools system, which recently welcomed a new superintendent, Dr. Gregory Monroe.
“I am delighted to serve alongside Father Arnsparger in the Education Vicariate, and I very much look forward to working with Dr. Monroe, the staff at the Diocesan Pastoral Center, and especially our school communities,” Father Reid said. “It's a privilege to serve in this capacity.”
— Patricia L. Guilfoyle, editor