J. Terry Steib

James Terry Steib, SVD (born May 17, 1940) is an American Catholic retired prelate who served as Bishop of Memphis from 1993 to 2016.

[1] On January 6, 1967, Steib was ordained as a priest by Archbishop Philip Matthew Hannan for the Society of the Divine Word[2] in Bay St.

[3] After his ordination, he started working at Saint Stanislaus College in Bay St. Louis, teaching English, literature, religion, reading and speech to high school students.

[2] He was consecrated on February 10, 1984, by Archbishop John L. May, with Auxiliary Bishops George Gottwald and Charles Koester serving as co-consecrators.

[2] One of Steib's primary accomplishments was reopening eight Catholic schools in Memphis that had been closed for financial reasons by a previous bishop.

The plaintiff claimed that Reverend Juan Carlos Duran, a Bolivian priest at Church of the Ascension in Raleigh, Tennessee, had sexually abused him in 1999 when his was 14 years old.

[9]On December 21, 2015, the Memphis City Council renamed a portion of Central Avenue as J. Terry Steib Lane in honor of the bishop.