Salinas, CA. – Archbishop Joseph A. Vellone,
DD announced the appointed of the Rev. Bobby, C. Hall, DD as Regionary Auxiliary Bishop of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church, Archdiocese of
California.
Bishop-elect Hall currently serves as
a priest in the Archdiocese of California and as the pastor of St. Georges Old
Roman Catholic Church, in Centerton Arkansas.
Bishop-elect Hall attended public schools
in Kerens and Corsicana, Texas. He
graduated High school in 1951 from Schreiner Institute located at Kerrville,
Texas. Immediately following graduation was to serve as an Artillery
Noncommissioned officer during the Korean Conflict. Upon discharge in 1955
entered college.
Bishop-elect Hall studied at Sam
Houston University in Huntsville, Texas where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in
1960. On Graduation was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. Army and served
during the Vet Nam conflict in the 82nd Airborne. In 1965 he entered
Texas Chiropractic College receiving the Doctor of Chiropractic Degree in 1970. During several years of practice in San Angelo, Texas he served as
incorporator and Chief of Staff of Angelo Chiropractic Associates, a
multi-discipline healing arts clinic consisting of Chiropractors, a Medical
Doctor, a Parodist and Physical therapists. During this time he was also to
serve on several state boards for the Chiropractic profession and by
gubernatorial appointment on a Federal medical advisory commission. Ceased
practice in 1983 due to an accident on his cattle ranch.
Later Bishop-elect Hall began studies in
Sacred Theology at Saint Aelred’s School of Theology receiving a Masters of
Theology in 2001. He was ordained as a
Deacon in July 2005. In 2007 was ordained a priest by the Most Rev. Louis W Falk
in Des Moines, IA.
Bishop-elect Hall went on to earn a Master
of Ministry degree in 2013 from the Holy Resurrection Orthodox Seminary,
Wesley, Oxford, and was later awarded a Doctor of Divinity ( Honoris Causa ) from the same institution in 2015. He is currently
studying as a candidate for the Doctor of Theology Degree.
Bishop-elect Hall’s parents were
Barney and Lovie Hall of Corsicana, Texas, both deceased.
Bishop-elect Hall currently resides in Bella
Vista, AR and is married to Patricia Ellen Williamson formally of Greenville,
OH. They have six children, two of whom are deceased, proudly having 6
grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.
