Background
Christopher John Glancy was born in Moline, Illinois.
Christopher John Glancy was born in Moline, Illinois.
He was educated at Alleman High School in Rock Island, Illinois and earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Loyola University of Chicago.
He has been the auxiliary bishop of the Belize City-Belmopan Diocese since 2012. He taught at the Colegio San Viator in Bogota, Colombia for four years. Glancy made his perpetual profession on July 13, 1986.
He earned a master of divinity degree, specializing in the theology of missions, from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.
Glancy was ordained a priest on April 17, 1993. His first assignment as a priest was as parochial vicar at Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Bourbonnais, Illinois.
He was missioned to Belize in 1988, where he served as parochial vicar at Saint Francis Xavier Parish in Corozal. The parish has 23 village missions, 19 primary schools, and Chunox Saint Viator Vocational High School.
He later returned to the United States where he served as parochial vicar at Saint Viator Parish in Chicago.
Pope Benedict XVI named Glancy the Titular Bishop of Absa Salla and Auxiliary Bishop of Belize City-Belmopan on February 18, 2012. He was ordained a bishop by Archbishop Luigi Pezzuto, the Apostolic Nuncio to Belize and the Antilles on May 5, 2012. The principal co-consecrators were Bishops Dorick M. Wright of Belize City-Belmopan and Jacques Berthelet, C.S.V. of Saint-Jean-Longueuil.
The Auxiliary Bishop works out of the cathedral parish in Belize City.