Join the Catholic Community to
Honor Mary Under Her Title Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Tucson
Saturday, October 17, 2026
10:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton
Catholic Church
8650 N Shannon Road, Tucson AZ 85742
Most Reverend James A. Misko
Bishop of Tucson, Presiding
Phoenix
Sunday, October 18, 2026
2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Doors open at noon for confession, adoration, exhibits.
Phoenix Convention Center
33 S. 3rd St., South Building, Halls F & G
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Most Reverend Peter Dai Bui
Auxiliary Bishop of Phoenix, Presiding
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Guest speakers in 2026
Please pray for our guest speakers as they prepare for Arizona Rosary Celebration. Thank you.
Monsignor James Patrick Shea
President of the University of Mary
Bismarck, North Dakota
Most Reverend Artur Bubnevych
Bishop of the Holy Protection of Mary
Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix
Bishop Artur Bubnevych was born on June 22, 1975, in the village of Perechyn in the Transcarpathian region of Soviet Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. This region belongs to the historic Eparchy of Mukachevo, the oldest Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic eparchy. Because the Byzantine Catholic Church was oppressed under communist rule, he was secretly baptized at home on July 7, 1975, by Byzantine Catholic priest Father Andrey Gleba.
Bishop Artur speaks his native Ruthenian language, as well as English, German, Latvian, Russian, and Ukrainian. In June 1994, he graduated from Vinogradov Polytechnical College and entered the Seminary of Blessed Theodore Romzha in August of the same year. In 1995, the Eparchy of Mukachevo sent him to Austria, where he studied English at the Language Catechetical Institute. The following year, he entered the International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, where he pursued theological studies and later earned a Licentiate in Theology in 2001.
He graduated from the Seminary of Blessed Theodore Romzha in 1998 and was ordained to the order of subdiaconate by Bishop Ioann Semediy in December of that year. From 2001 to 2005, he served in the Diocese of Liepaja in Latvia.
From 2006 to 2013, he served the Eparchy of Mukachevo as Project Secretary to Bishop Milan Šašik, C.M. In addition to his work in the chancery, he taught English at the seminary and served from 2006 to 2011 as the main cantor at his home parish of Saint Nicholas in Perechyn.
In 2013, Bishop Artur discerned a missionary call to serve the Byzantine Catholic Church in the United States. He came to the Eparchy of Phoenix in September 2013 and served at St. Stephen Cathedral in Phoenix as a subdeacon and parish office assistant. In 2014, Bishop Gerald Dino ordained him to the diaconate on March 9 and to the priesthood on September 14, both at St. Stephen Cathedral. Bishop Gerald then assigned him as pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he began his ministry on January 9, 2015.
On November 8, 2024, the Feast of the Holy Archangel Michael and All the Holy Incorporeal Powers, His Holiness Pope Francis appointed him the sixth Bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Protection of Mary in Phoenix. His episcopal consecration and enthronement took place on January 28, 2025, at Annunciation Byzantine Catholic Church in Anaheim, California. His principal consecrator was Metropolitan William Skurla, with Bishop Kurt Burnette and Bishop Robert Pipta serving as co-consecrators.
As bishop, Bishop Artur serves the Byzantine Catholic faithful throughout the western United States, seeking to strengthen parish life, foster vocations, and proclaim the Gospel in the rich spiritual and liturgical tradition of the Christian East. His episcopal motto is: “I will love You, O Lord, my strength; the Lord is my rock and my refuge.”
In addition to his episcopal ministry, Bishop Artur enjoys downhill skiing, mountain biking, and camping.
Monsignor James Patrick Shea serves as president of the University of Mary.
Monsignor Shea was inaugurated in 2009 as the sixth president of the university and, at the age of 34, became the youngest college or university president in the United States.
He succeeded Sister Thomas Welder, who had served as president for 31 years.
The oldest of eight children, Monsignor Shea grew up on a dairy and grain farm near Hazelton, North Dakota, just 38 miles from the University of Mary’s main campus. He began his undergraduate work at Jamestown College, majoring in English and history. He then entered the seminary for the Diocese of Bismarck, earning a bachelor’s degree and a pontifical master’s degree (licentiate) in philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He studied classical Greek at the University of Texas at Austin and continued at the Vatican’s North American College, studying theology at the Gregorian and Lateran universities in Rome. He has studied management at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and is also an alumnus of the Institutes for Higher Education at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.
Monsignor Shea served with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity at the Gift of Peace AIDS Hospice while teaching religion at two inner-city schools in Washington, D.C. In Rome, he served as chaplain for the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital and also at the Rome campus of the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of Saint Thomas. In 2002, he returned to North Dakota and served as an associate pastor in Bismarck and Mandan. During that time, he was also the chaplain and a teacher at Saint Mary’s Central High School in Bismarck. He then served as pastor to parishes in Killdeer and Halliday (North Dakota), while teaching at Trinity High School in Dickinson.
Monsignor Shea serves on the Boards of Directors for Saint John Vianney Seminary in Denver, Relevant Radio, the Association of Benedictine Colleges and Universities, and the Northern Sun Conference of the NCAA. He has been a member of the National Advisory Council to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. For the State of North Dakota, he has served on the Governor’s Commission on Education Improvement and the Attorney General’s Task Force on Human Trafficking. Monsignor served as chairman of the Catholic Identity Committee on the Board of Directors for FOCUS: the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, and he is a Knight Commander of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
Deeply committed to the education and formation of young people, Monsignor Shea is a priest of the Diocese of Bismarck.