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Important Websites

NBCC
National Black Catholic Congress
www.nbccongress.org

USCCB
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.usccb.org

Black and Indian Mission Office (established 1884)
Rev. Wayne Paysse, Executive Director
2021 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20006
www.blackandindianmission.org

Most Rev. Joseph Howze (Retired)

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Most Reverend Joseph Lawson Howze, D.D.
Bishop of Biloxi

• Born August 30, 1923, Daphne, Alabama

• Convert to Catholicism, 1948

• Education: St. Bonaventure University, New York

• Ordained priest for the Diocese of Raleigh May 7, 1959

• Consecrated Titular Bishop of Massita and Auxiliary Bishop of Natchez-Jackson, January 28, 19973

• Appointed the first Bishop of Biloxi March 8, 1977

• Installed Bishop of Biloxi, June 6, 1977

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