Francis Malone

Francis Ignatius Malone (born September 1, 1950) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop for the Diocese of Shreveport in Louisiana since 2019.

[2] On May 21, 1977, Malone was ordained to the priesthood at the Church of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Philadelphia by Bishop Andrew McDonald for the Diocese of Little Rock.

In 1987, Malone entered the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he received a Licentiate of Canon Law in 1989.

After returning to Little Rock, he was named moderator of Cursillo and rector of the Cathedral of St. Andrew in that city.

They were five French missionary priests who traveled to Shreveport in 1873 to tend to the sick during a yellow fever epidemic.