Cardinal Giorgio Marengo to ordain Anthony Corcoran as bishop of Kyrgyzstan

Cardinal Giorgio Marengo will ordain Father Anthony Corcoran as a bishop in Kyrgyzstan on September 29. Corcoran, an American Jesuit, has served as the leader of a community of several hundred Catholics in Kyrgyzstan for nearly a decade.

Born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1963, Corcoran attended Saint Andrew’s in Sierra Vista before moving to Texas as a child. He attended the training for new bishops organized by the Dicastery for Evangelization and the Dicastery for Bishops.