Archbishop-elect Mark S. Rivituso was born in St. Louis on Sept. 20, 1961, the sixth of eight children to August (Gus) and Rosemary Rivituso. He was baptized in 1961 at St. Wenceslaus Parish in south St. Louis and attended St. Wenceslaus School, which later became Notre Dame Elementary School. He is a graduate of St. Mary’s High School.
Archbishop-elect Rivituso was ordained to the priesthood on Jan. 16, 1988, at the Saint Louis Cathedral (now Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis).
Archbishop-elect Rivituso attended Cardinal Glennon College and Kenrick Seminary. He earned a master’s degree and a licentiate in canon and civil law from St. Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. He was ordained a priest for the archdiocese at the Saint Louis Cathedral (now Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis) by Archbishop John L. May on Jan. 16, 1988. Pope Benedict XVI named him a monsignor in 2005.
He was associate pastor of St. Ambrose in south St. Louis (1988-90), part-time associate pastor of Immaculate Conception in Dardenne Prairie and on the faculty of St. Dominic High School (1990-93), part-time associate pastor of St. Margaret of Scotland in south St. Louis and staff member of the archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal (1993-94).
After returning from studies in Canada in the mid-1990s, he was appointed to the Metropolitan Tribunal staff (1993-94, 1996-2004) and named part-time associate pastor at St. Jerome in Bissell Hills (1996-2004). He also had assignments as acting associate master of ceremonies to the archbishop (1997-2008), in residence at St. Mary Magdalen in south St. Louis (1997-2004) and St. Gabriel the Archangel in south St. Louis (2004-08), adjunct judicial vicar of the Tribunal of Second Instance of the Province of St. Louis (2004-05), judicial vicar of the Tribunal of Second Instance (2005-11) and pastor of Cure of Ars (2008-13).
Archbishop-elect Rivituso was ordained bishop on May 2, 2017, at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis.
In 2011, he was named vicar general for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, a role in which he aided the archbishop in the administration of the archdiocese and lived at Annunciation Parish in Webster Groves.
Pope Francis appointed him as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of St. Louis in 2017. He was ordained bishop on May 2, 2017. Then-Archbishop Robert J. Carlson was the principal consecrator, with Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Robert J. Hermann and Bishop Edward M. Rice of Springfield-Cape Girardeau as co-consecrators.
Pope Leo XIV appointed him as the 10th bishop and third archbishop of Mobile, Alabama, on July 1. The installation Mass will be celebrated Sept. 3 at the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Mobile.
