Bishop Robert Fisher | Biography

Born: September 24, 1959
Ordained Priest: June 27, 1992
Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit and Titular Bishop of Forum Popilii: November 23, 2016
Ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit: January 25, 2017

The oldest of the four children of Robert and Trudy (Torzewski) Fisher, Robert Joseph Fisher was born September 24, 1959 and attended Epiphany and St. Bede Elementary schools before graduating from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School in 1977.

He went on to the University of Detroit, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Science. During his summers, he worked for the Catholic Youth Organization at their summer camps near Port Sanilac, Michigan. After graduating, he worked full time for the CYO overseeing the Camping Services Department.

While working for the CYO, he began his discernment of the diocesan priesthood and entered formation at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the fall of 1986, earning a Master of Divinity degree.

After being ordained a priest by Adam Cardinal Maida in 1992, he was sent as associate pastor to Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish in Grosse Pointe Woods. In 1995, Cardinal Maida assigned him as the Director of Priestly Vocations for the Archdiocese.

In 2000, he was named pastor of St. Angela in Roseville, in 2003, St. Lawrence in Utica and since March of 2014 has served as rector of the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

During his pastorates, he was a seminarian mentor at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, and he served on the Program Review Committee and the Presbyteral Council, the Catholic Schools Council, and the Board of Directors of the Catholic Youth Organization.

On November 23, 2016, Pope Francis named him auxiliary bishop of Detroit and titular bishop of Forum Popilii. He was consecrated on January 25, 2017 at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit.