Most Reverend Nicholas DiMARZIO, Ph.D., D.D.

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio was installed as the seventh Bishop of Brooklyn in October of 2003. Before that time, he served as the sixth Bishop of Camden from July of 1999 until September of 2003. He has made migration and immigration issues a central area of concern. He is currently chairman of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), and was Chairman of the U.S. Bishop's Conference Migration Committee from 1998-2001. He has written extensively on the migration issues and has provided testimony to the U.S. House of Representative sub-committees on immigration, refugees and international law.

In September 2000, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop DiMarzio as a member of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and the Itinerant, which serves those who, through choice or necessity, have left their usual place of residence. Among these are migrants, exiles, refugees and international workers.

Bishop DiMarzio has also made ecumenism and interfaith relations an important part of his pastoral mission. He presided at a special Catholic-Lutheran prayer service to celebrate the Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification and later signed an Agreement of Understanding with leaders of the Jewish community of South Jersey (2001), only the second of its kind in the nation.

Bishop DiMarzio is a citizen of the United States.