Background
Perry, Joseph Nathaniel was born on April 18, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Perry, Joseph Nathaniel was born on April 18, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Joseph Perry attended various Catholic elementary schools in Chicago between 1954 and 1962. Foreign one year, in 1962, he attended Carver High School, moving on to Saint Lawrence Seminary High School for the remainder of his high school years.
Perry undertook undergraduate studies (1967) at Saint Joseph"s College in Rensselaer, Indiana and the Capuchin Seminary of Saint Mary, Crown Point, Indiana, graduating in 1971 with two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Philosophy and Theology, with a minor in Education. Perry obtained a Master of Divinity from Saint Francis Seminary in 1975.
Perry attended the Catholic University of America, Washington District of Columbia 1979-1981 where he matriculated with the licentiate degree Juris Canonici Licentiatus (license) in canon law.
Education Ordination and ministry Perry was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee on May 24, 1975. From the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, Bishop Perry was a priest within the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, serving first as associate pastor of Saint Nicholas Parish followed by an assignment (1976) within the tribunal department of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, becoming Chief Judicial Officer of the Tribunal from 1983 until 1995. Bishop Perry then was assigned pastor of All Saints Church in Milwaukee in 1995 until his ordination as a bishop June 1998.
Perry was a professor of canon law at the Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wisconsin 1981-1995.
Since 1996 he was an instructor in canon law at both the Marquette University Law School and since 1997 at Mundelein Seminary.Mundelein, Illinois. Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago Perry was given the titular diocese of Lead on May 5, 1998.
After his consecration as a bishop on June 29, 1998, Bishop Perry was appointed the episcopal vicar for Vicariate VI of the Archdiocese of Chicago} serving Cardinal Francis George, OMI the Archbishop of Chicago. Membership and Appointments In 2010, Bishop Perry was named by Cardinal Francis George to be the Diocesan Postulator for the sainthood cause of French
Augustus Tolton (1854-1897).
He has also served on several other USCCB committees, including those for Education, Home Missions. The Ad Hoc Committee on Catholics" Use of Holy Scripture. The Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth.
And the Ad Hoc Committee for a Plenary Council, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the subcommittee for the Defense of Marriage and the subcommittee for Migrants, Refugees and Travelers.
Perry is vice-president of the National Black Catholic Congress"s board. In 1998 he sat on the Board of Advisors of Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary.
In addition, he is an episcopal liaison for Catechetics and Liturgical Training Publications (LTP) of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and is a judge sitting on the Ecclesiastical Court of Appeals for the dioceses in the state of Illinois.
Member of Black Catholic Congress (vice president board since 2004), Knights of St. Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary, United States Conference Catholic Bishops (member ad hoc committee for pienary council since 2002, secretariat for family, laity, women and youth since 2002, member ad hoc committee on Catholics' Use of Holy Scripture since 2003, member committee on education since 2003, chairman committee on African American Catholics since 2004), Canon Law Society.