Robert F. Vasa

He also started teaching at Pius X High School in Lincoln.The diocese in 1977 moved Vasa to a posting as an advocate on the diocesan marriage tribunal.

[1] Following Vasa's return to Nebraska in 1981, Flavin appointed him as assistant chancellor of the diocese and afterwards father prior of the local Columbian Squires chapter.

[1] Vasa was appointed vice chancellor in 1987 and in 1988 directed the remodeling and fund drive for St. Stephen Parish in Exeter, Nebraska.

He received his episcopal consecration at the Three Sisters Convention Center in Redmond, Oregon, on January 26, 2000, from Archbishop John Vlazny, with Bishops Thomas Connolly and Fabian Bruskewitz serving as co-consecrators.

[7] On July 22, 2019, Vasa suspended Reverend Oscar Diaz, the pastor of Resurrection Parish in Santa Rosa, California, from ministry.

[8] In December 2022, Vasa announced that the diocese would seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in order to deal with a large volume of sexual abuse lawsuits against the clergy.

[10] In a 2006 column, Vasa implied that Catholics who support abortion rights for women are guilty of a so-called heresy of murder.