2019 Congress Chat with Bishop O'Connell

PictureOn Friday, March 16, 2019 at 10:15 a.m. PDT Los Angeles San Gabriel Reginal Bishop David O'Connell will conduct a live video chat from the Technology Center at the main Exhibit Hall at the Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, Calif.

The Congress Chat has been an annual event, beginning with Cardinal Roger Mahony in 1996, continuing with Archbishop Josι Gomez and this year with Bishop O'Connell chatting with school students from his region -- All Souls Elementary School in Alhambra. This will be the sixth video chat from Congress. We'd like to especially thank Principal Carrie Fuller (left photo) and Gabriella Karina (right photo), Director of Admissions and Marketing.

 

This private video chat with Archbishop O'Connell is expressly with students from All Souls School in Alhambra.

Bishop David G. O’Connell was born July 16, 1953 in County Cork, Ireland. He was ordained June 10, 1979 at All Hallows College in Dublin, Ireland. He was named as Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles on July 21, 2015 and ordained as Bishop on September 8, 2015 and also appointed as the Episcopal Vicar of the San Gabriel Pastoral Region in the largest Archdiocese in the United States.

 

Return after the chat to view a posted video of the chat.

 


Read the transcripts from other Religious Education Congress online chats

Congress Chat History:
Beginning in 1996 on CompuServe, Cardinal Roger Mahony conducted the first nationwide, online (typing) live from Hall A at the Anaheim Convention Center. in 2001 the Cardinal suggested adding a private chat with students from a school in the Archdiocese. Since then, we have had the tradition of a private school chat.

Los Angeles Archbishop Josι Gomez continued the tradition of a Congress Chat, and now we've expanded our chats to include regional bishops and schools from their region. This year, Bishop David O'Connell joins us for our sixth video chat with a school from his region.

 
with Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell of the San Gabriel Region

2019 (All Souls, Alhambra)

with Los Angeles Archbishop Josι Gomez

2017 (St Francis of Assisi, L.A.)  •  2016 (St Mary Magdalen, Camarillo)  •  2015 (St Finbar School, Burbank)  •  2014 (St Columbkille School, L.A.)  •  2013 (St Bernard School, L.A.)  •  2012 (St Dorothy School, Glendora)  •  2011 (St Thomas School, L.A.)

with Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles

2010  •  2010 (St John Chrysostom School, Inglewood)  •  2009  •  2009 (St Elisabeth, Van Nuys)  •  2008  •  2008 (Sacred Heart, Covina)  •  2007  •  2007 (St Benedict, Montebello)  •  2007 (St Rita, Sierra Madre)  •  2006  •  2006 (Holy Innocents, Long Beach)  •  2005  •  2004  •  2003  •  2001  •  2001 (St Jerome, Westchester)  •   2001 (Holy Family, South Pasadena)  •  2000  •  1999  •  1998  •  1997  •  1996

with Auxiliary Bishop Edward Clark of the Our Lady of the Angels Pastoral Region

 2002

2016 Marks 20 Years of Congress Chats — The first (typing) RECongress chat was held on Friday, February 23, 1996 on CompuServe with Cardinal Roger Mahony. Ten years later, on Friday, March 31, 2006, the Cardinal's annual chat was conducted in a room hosted on ChurchWerks.com. The Cardinal participated in 22 Congress chats (both nationwide and with schools) over 14 years.

At Congress 2016, Archbishop Josι Gomez has continued the tradition of (now, video) chats with school students from the Archdiocese. This was his sixth Congress chat (and fourth video chat) conducted from the Tech Center, located in the center of Exhibit Hall A at the Religious Education Congress. The RECongress chat are now continued through the regional bishops, while the Archbishop now holds an event on Facebnook Live.

Beginning on CompuServe, the RECongress nationwide chats have been hosted by AOL Live! (1997-2000), Beliefnet (2001), CatholicWeb.com (2002-2003), and ChurchWerks.com (2004-2010). The school chats have been conducted on AOL (2001-2006), Yahoo (2007), Chatzy (2008-2012), Skype (2013-2014) and Google+ (2015-2016).


 


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