Born July 26, 1941, in Ottawa, as the eldest of seven children and raised on a farm near Earlville in LaSalle County He was installed on April 10, 2002, in the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria. On February 12, 2002, on the day of the 127th anniversary of the establishment of the Peoria Diocese, Pope John Paul II appointed him the eighth Bishop of Peoria. John D’Arcy, Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, appointed Bishop Jenky as Rector of the Co-Cathedral and Pastor of the parish. Matthew Cathedral in South Bend, Indiana, on December 16. In October of 1997, Pope John Paul II appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend and titular Bishop of Amantia. He also regularly taught course on spirituality and theology of prayer in Notre Dame’s graduate school. During the years when he was the Rector, he organized liturgies for all major university occasions and special events and coordinated the six choirs connected with Campus Ministry. While still the Rector of Sacred Heart, in 1992 the church was raised to the rank of a Minor Basilica, nationally renowned for its rich liturgical tradition. He held this position for only one year, when he was named Superior of the local Holy Cross community and Rector of Fischer O’Hara Grace, a residential complex for 560 graduate students. He became rector of Sacred Heart Church and later Director of Campus Ministry. In 1974, he was ordained a priest and taught Social Studies and Religion at Bourgade Catholic High School in Phoenix, Arizona.Īfter a year, he returned to Notre Dame and was appointed Rector of Dillon Hall and Associate Director of Campus Ministry. He served at Sacred Heart Parish and assisted the residential staff of Flanner Hall. The same year he professed his final vows and was ordained a deacon.
In 1970, he earned a bachelor’s degree in history, and in 1973, he completed graduate studies in theology.
Following his First Profession in 1967, he was assigned to Moreau Seminary to continue his education at Notre Dame. In 1966, after a year at the University of Notre Dame, he entered the novitiate of the Holy Cross Congregation in Vermont. Laurence High School, conducted by the Irish Christian Brothers. Nicholas of Tolentine parish school on the south-west side of the city and St. He was born March 3, in 1947 in Chicago, Illinois.