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Raymond Alphonse Lucker

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Raymond Alphonse Lucker (February 24, 1927-September 19, 2001) was the second Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New Ulm, in New Ulm, Minnesota.[1]

Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Lucker was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on June 7, 1952, for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. On July 12, 1971, Pope Paul VI appointed Lucker auxiliary bishop of the St. paul/Minneapolis Archdiocese and he was ordained bishop on September 8, 1971. On December 23, 1975, Pope Paul VI appointed Bishop Lucker the Bishop of the New Ulm Diocese.[2] On November 17, 2000, Bishop Lucker retired due to ill health. He died in St. Paul, and was buried in New Ulm.[3]

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