Annual Bishop's Support
The Episcopal Ongoing Formation & Support (EOFS) sessions provide bishops the chance to step back, refocus, and reclaim their priorities in a rapidly changing societal climate. Bishop’s receive skill-building and coaching to envision a strong future for their local churches and so they can better respond to the leadership challenges they encounter.
Episcopal Transition Support
Over the next five years, more than 70 Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops across over 60 Archdioceses and Dioceses will be appointed to new leadership roles, reshaping the landscape of the Church. The Episcopal Transition and Support service is a comprehensive and personalized offering designed to accompany a bishop and his diocese before, during, and after a transition. This multifaceted approach ensures that the process is seamless, prayerful, and strategically aligned with the pastoral and organizational needs of the local Church.
Through tailored leadership accompaniment, diocesan assessments, transition planning, and ongoing support, this service helps new bishops enter their ministry with clarity, confidence, and continuity, while also helping diocesan teams adapt and flourish under new leadership.
Articulating a Vision for the Future
Through a collaborative process and skilled facilitation, we can assist your diocese in articulating a vision for the future, creating a plan for implementation, and building a team of leaders to support your vision.
Tackling Diocesan Challenges
Catholic Leadership Institute accompanies bishops and helps them tackle the most difficult challenges facing dioceses today such as the priest shortage and implementing new parish models. We walk with dioceses through profound transformations that are rooted in conversion of heart, marked by a deep embrace of synodality, and imbued with a missionary mindset.
Parish and Diocesan Consulting & Support
Renewing Your Presbyterate
The world in which your priests were ordained is no longer the world they minister today. They are now faced with a culture that increasingly stands in opposition to the Church and the fullness of Her truth, with a flock that often does not know the voice of the Shepherd.
Vibrant Parishes
Next Generation Parish is a two-year journey that offers accompaniment to pastors and parishes, cultivating apostolic ministry and a culture of missionary discipleship. Through spiritual formation, strategic planning, and leadership development, parishes will deepen individual discipleship, foster intentional worship, and embrace a missionary impulse.
Data-Driven Decision Making
Using innovative technology and data analytics, CLI helps bishops take an inventory of its local church so they can make data informed decisions about the future. With the “Disciple Maker Index”, we help you assess parishes needs based on data from your local community and national trends. With the "Priest Leadership Inventory" bishops can understand the behavioral makeup and desires of the presbyterate to provide clarity about priest skills and preferences to help plan and prepare for future ministry assignments.
Seminary Training
Our customized seminary curriculum provides formation focused on self-understanding, leadership, and personal and pastoral growth that complement the seminary’s overall priestly formation ministry.
“As the Vicar General in the Archdiocese of Chicago and now as the Bishop of Joliet, Catholic Leadership Institute has been an incredible resource in helping me and our clergy and lay leaders plan for the future with hope and an authentic focus on mission. The space they create for bishops to gather and learn together has been a great gift to my episcopate especially in the earliest years.”
Bishop Ronald Hicks, Diocese of Joliet
Our Impact
148 |
Total Partner Dioceses Where Services Have Been Delivered |
308 |
Bishops served by Catholic Leadership Institute |
5,175 |
Priests Served through Called for More |
1,275 |
Seminarians Served by Catholic Leadership Institute |
41,978 |
Parish and Diocesan Staff Served by Catholic Leadership Institute |
914,281 |
Total Responses to the Disciple Maker Index Survey |
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