More than 2,000 lay faithful, clergy and religious from around the world gathered on Friday, September 5 as the Very Reverend Simon Peter Engurait was ordained and installed as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux.
SCHRIEVER, LA- Pope Leo XIV has appointed Father Simon Peter Engurait to be the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux. The announcement was made this morning in Rome and Washington by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.