Anthony Taylor

Who is Anthony Taylor?

Anthony Basil Taylor, formerly of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, was appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Little Rock in the USA by Pope Benedict XVI on 10 April 2008, the seventh bishop of the diocese. He was consecrated on 5 June 2008 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.

Taylor attended parochial and public schools, graduating from Ponca City, Oklahoma in 1972. He attended the University of Oklahoma for two years, after which he was accepted as a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. He was ordained a priest on 2 August 1980 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He earned a Ph.D. in biblical theology in 1989 from Fordham University.