Mary's in July 1997. Episcopal career Bishop of Harrisburg On October 14, 2004, Rhoades was appointed as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on December 9, 2004, from Cardinal Justin Rigali, with Cardinal Keeler and Bishop Thomas Olmsted serving as co-consecrators. Rhoades selected as his episcopal motto: Veritatem In Caritate, meaning, "Truth in Charity" (Ephesians 4:15). Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Rhoades was a member of the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, the Committee on Pastoral Practices, and the Subcommittee on the Catechism. He chaired the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth. In 2006, Rhoades recommended to the Vatican that William Presley, a priest in the diocese, be laicized. Presley had faced allegations of sexual abuse in the 1970's when he was assigned to the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana. In his letter, Rhoades termed Presley as a "sexual predator" and a danger to the Catholic community. However, Rhoades did not report him to the general public, fearing scandal. The Presley case was revealed in 2018 by the Pennsylvania Grand Jury investigation of sexual abuse in the church. The grand jury also revealed that in 2007 Rhoades told the Vatican that he had ordered a second priest accused of sexual abuse to spend the rest of his life in penance. Again, Rhoades did not report the priest to the public due to concern about scandal. In response to both cases, Rhoades in 2018 said he followed all the procedures then in place and reported the two priests to law enforcement. Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend On November 14, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named Rhoades as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. At a special Vespers service at the Cathedral on Sunday, January 3, 2010, the Diocese of Harrisburg made a formal farewell to Rhoades. In 2011, he became the first bishop to grant an imprimatur to an iPhone application. During the 2017 Fall General Assembly of the USCCB, Rhoades was elected chair of the Conference's Committee on Doctrine. On August 1, 2018, Bishop Ronald Gainer, Rhoades' successor as bishop of Harrisburg, announced that the names of every bishop of Harrisburg from 1947 onward—including Rhoades' -- would be removed from any building or room in the diocese named in their honor. This action was due