Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB (2009-2025)
Date of Birth:
July 9, 1946
Ordination:
June 29, 1975
Episcopal Ordination:
January 12, 2004
Archbishop of Vancouver:
2009–2025
Motto: Veritati Servire (To Serve the Truth)
Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, served as the Archbishop of Vancouver from 2009 until 2025. He had previously served as the coadjutor archbishop of Vancouver and as Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education. Prior to his appointment as bishop, he was a professor and academic administrator at the University of St. Thomas (UST) in Houston.
Archbishop Miller was born and raised in Ottawa, where he completed his secondary education. He entered the Basilian novitiate after his first year of studies at St. Michael's College in Toronto. He was ordained a priest in 1975. He completed a licentiate and doctoral degree in dogmatic theology and went on to teach at UST. After a five-year stint in Rome working at the Secretariat of State, he returned to UST and became its president in 1997. He was appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education in 2002 and was consecrated the following year. He was named coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vancouver in 2007, before assuming the office of archbishop two years later. Miller has been noted for overseeing the construction of the archdiocese's new administrative headquarters and starting its permanent diaconate program. He also appointed the committee that examined historical sex abuse by clergy in the archdiocese and published its findings in a report, purportedly the first in Canada.