Bishop Andrew Cozzens

Bishop Andrew Cozzens, a graduate of Benedictine College in Atchison Kansas, served as a missionary for young people with both Twin Cities based NET Ministries and the national college ministry Saint Paul’s Outreach before entering seminary. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in 1997 and after serving in two parishes was sent to Rome for doctoral studies, where he completed a doctorate degree in Sacramental Theology focusing on Saint John Paul II’s theology of the Priest as the Bridegroom of the Church. His book A Living Image of the Bridegroom: The Priesthood and the Evangelical Counsels was published in 2020 through the Institute for Priestly Formation out of Omaha, an organization for which he also serves as president.

After teaching in seminary formation for 8 years, Bishop Cozzens was ordained to the episcopacy in 2013 as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. On December 6, 2021, he was installed as the 8th bishop of the Diocese of Crookston.

He was tasked by the U.S. Bishops with leading a three-year National Eucharistic Revival which began in 2022 and has impacted the U.S. Church at every level seeking to strengthen Eucharistic belief and practice and help the U.S. Church make a missionary conversion. As part of the Revival, he founded and is the first President of the National Eucharistic Congress Corporation and he oversaw the 10th National Eucharistic Congress July 17-21, 2024, in Indianapolis where over 60,000 Catholics gathered to worship the Eucharistic Lord and be sent on mission across the country. This was the first National Eucharistic Congress in the United States in almost 50 years.