Paul D. Etienne

Who is Paul D. Etienne?

Paul D. Etienne, born June 15, 1959 in Tell City, Indiana is a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. He attended Bellarmine College in Louisville, KY before going on to St. Thomas College in Minnesota. Father Etienne was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis on June 27, 1992. On October 19, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him the Bishop of the Diocese of Cheyenne in Wyoming.

Etienne was born in Tell City, Indiana in 1959. He attended Bellarmine College in Louisville, KY before he went on to complete his studies at the University of St. Thomas St. Paul, Minnesota and obtained B.A. in Business Administration in 1986. After several years of work, he began his ecclesiastical studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the University Angelicum, where he obtained a Licentiate in Spiritual Theology in 1995. He was ordained a priest 27 June 1992 for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.

He served in the following positions: assistant pastor of the Saint Barnabas Parish, Indianapolis' Director of Vocations, and pastor of the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany. Since 2002, he's served at Saint John the Baptist Parish in New Albany, and pastor of the Saint Simon the Apostle Parish and Saint John the Evangelist in Indianapolis. He's also served as vice-rector of the Bishop Brute College Seminary in Indianapolis, and pastor of the Saint Paul Parish at Tell City. He was also Consultant and member of the archdiocesan council of priests.