Randolph Roque Calvo is an America prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.Calvo served as the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Reno in Nevada from 2006 until 2021 Biography Early life Randolph Calvo was born on August 28, 1951, in Agaña, Guam, the youngest of seven children. The family later moved to San Francisco where he attended elementary school. Calvo completed his clerical formation at Saint Joseph College Seminary in Mountain View, California, and at Saint Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, California. In 1986, Calvo earned a Doctor of Canon Law degree at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome with a dissertation entitled Consultation and the Presbyterial Council: new emphasis in the ratio legis. Priesthood On May 21, 1977, Calvo was ordained by Archbishop John Raphael Quinn as a priest for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. After his ordination, Calvo was assigned as parochial vicar at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco. In 1979, he was moved to Saint Pius Parish in Redwood City California. In 1982, Calvo went to Rome to study canon law. He returned in 1986 to San Francisco to serve as adjutant judicial vicar of the archdiocesan tribunal. In 1987, he became judicial vicar. In 1997, Calvo was appointed pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Redwood City. He also taught canon law at St Patrick' Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California. Bishop of Reno On December 23, 2005, Pope Benedict VI appointed Calvo as bishop of the Diocese of Reno. He was consecrated on February 17, 2006, at the Hilton Hotel Pavilion in Reno, Nevada. Archbishop George H. Neiderauer was the principal consecrator, accompanied by co-consecrators Bishop Phillip F. Straling and Bishop John C. Wester. On September 30, 2009, Calvo was named in a lawsuit by Richard DeMolen, the former pastor of Our Lady of Tahoe Catholic Parish in Zephyr Cove, Nevada. Calvo had fired DeMolen because the priest had refused to remove a restraining order he filed against a diocesan deacon. DeMolen claimed the deacon had sent him a death threat, which Calvo never investigated. The lawsuit was dismissed on April 11, 2010. On October 22, 2010, Calvo placed Tom Cronin, a priest at St. Mary’s in the Mountains Parish in Virginia City, Nevada, on leave due to a sexual abuse allegation from Missouri. On October 1, 2010, Calvo had read that Cronin was being