Īs of November 2022, Barron's regular YouTube videos have been viewed over 116 million times he has over 3 million followers on Facebook, 360,000 on Instagram, and 215,000 on Twitter. He has been informally called the 'bishop of social media' and the 'bishop of the Internet'. He is a religion correspondent for NBC and has also appeared on Fox News, CNN, and EWTN. He served as rector at Mundelein Seminary from 2012 to 2015 and as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2015 to 2022.īarron has published books, essays, and articles on theology and spirituality. He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire, and was the host of Catholicism, a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS. The website Church Militant was critical of the series.Robert Emmet Barron (born November 19, 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester since 2022. The series has received numerous praises by figures like papal biographer George Weigel, Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Cardinal Francis George for its effort in pursuing the new evangelization in the modern world. Offered on DVD, the series was also broadcast on PBS stations, prompting PBS's ombudsmen to issue a statement clarifying to the public that it was neither distributed by PBS nor produced using PBS funding, the latter of which was expressed as a concern by PBS viewers. In 2011, Word on Fire published Catholicism, a ten-part video documentary series that explores the cultural, spiritual, and historical elements of Catholicism. In addition to this, Word on Fire distributes spiritual media as DVDs and books for individual and group study. Barron eventually expanded to online distribution through social media, and is active with distributing videos on YouTube. Initially Barron worked through radio, and television, hosting the Word on Fire radio show on Relevant Radio and the Word on Fire with Father Barron television show on WGN America. It rose to prominence through Barron's work as a priest engaging with new media, and has been noted as an effective model for sharing information about Catholicism to the public. Word on Fire is a Catholic media organization founded by Bishop Robert Barron that uses digital and traditional media to introduce Catholicism to the broader world. Non-profit Catholic new media organization

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