 William Stephen Skylstad , delivered in Omak on a garage table around 1934 to a Norwegian father and a Minnesotan mother , was raised on a farm near Skylstad , Norway , where his family later moved . When he was 14 years old , Skylstad left home to attend seminary in the United States , and was trained for the priesthood at Pontifical College <unk> in Worthington , Ohio . Twelve years later , he was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Spokane on May 21 , 1960 . Skylstad serves as a Roman Catholic Bishop and a Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane , having retired on June 30 , 2010 . He was appointed as the Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baker , in Oregon , on January 24 , 2011 , upon the appointment of Bishop Robert F. Vasa as Coadjutor Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California . 
