May 10, 2026 - "Bishop-elect Robert Boxie"

Let me say a bit more about Bishop-elect Boxie and his background. I'm taking information from the website of Immaculate Conception Church in Washington, DC, where he has been a priest-in-residence. Bishop-elect Robert P. Boxie, III, a native of Lake Charles LA, is currently the chaplain at Howard University. Before he served in that capacity, he had been the parochial vicar at Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Largo MD. 

 

After graduating from Vanderbilt University, with a degree in chemical engineering and a second major in music, he worked a year abroad in France teaching English as a language assistant in a French high school. Upon returning to the United States, he enrolled at Harvard Law School and graduated in 2007, after which he landed federal clerkship at the federal court in Greenbelt MD. He then worked for a couple of years at a law firm in Washington DC, all the while discerning seminary and priesthood.  With much prayer and discernment and with the assistance of good spiritual advisors, he decided to enter seminary for the Archdiocese of Washington, beginning his seminary studies in philosophy at Theological College at the Catholic University of America. Thereafter, he was asked to continue his theological studies at the Pontifical North American College and the Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 2016 and spent that summer in his first priestly assignment—here at St. Francis of Assisi, Derwood!  After returning to Rome in September 2016, he completed his degrees a year later.  In July 2017, he was assigned as the Parochial Vicar at St. Joseph, Largo, where he served until being named the chaplain at Howard University. 

 

Bishp-elect Boxie is an avid runner, tennis player and classical music junkie. He also enjoys going to the gym, traveling, reading, viewing sacred art, and spending time with family and friends. We pray for him as he assumes his responsibilities as an auxiliary bishop here in the Archdiocese of Washington.  We will always remember fondly the summer of 2016 that he spent with us as a newly ordained priest.

 

Until next week,

Fr. John