Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Ill., leaves after concelebrating Mass with other U.S. bishops from Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome Dec. 11, 2019.

Bishop Edward K. Braxton of the Catholic Diocese of Belleville sent a letter to church leaders in Southern Illinois, allowing them to hold Masses after two months of being closed due to the COVID ...

He served as pastor at the Church of St. Mary in Lake Forest, about 30 miles north of Chicago, from 2004 to 2016 and St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church in Old Mill Creek, a small town near ...

Fr. McGovern will succeed Bishop Edward K. Braxton who was appointed as the eighth Bishop of Bellville in 2005, replacing Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, who is now Archbishop of Washington.