The Most Reverend Oscar A. Solis 10th Bishop of Salt Lake City Cordially Invites You to Join in Celebrating
The 2026
Bishop’s Dinner
Honored Speaker
First Archbishop of Las Vegas
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Las Vegas
In 1983, he received a BA in Philosophy from Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania. While attending the Pontifical North American College in Rome, he received his STB at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1986. He received a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL) at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family of the Pontifical Lateran University in Washington, D.C. in 1991.
Following his ordination to the priesthood in Las Vegas in 1988, Father Gordon served in various parishes in the then-Diocese of Reno-Las Vegas, later the Diocese of Las Vegas, as parochial vicar, chaplain, and pastor.
In 2007, he began his service as an official at the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, D.C. In 2009, while a local collaborator at the Nunciature, he was named Chaplain to His Holiness with the title of Monsignor. He returned to the Diocese of Las Vegas in 2014, and in 2019, was appointed Vice-Chancellor, and in 2020, Chancellor. In 2021, Monsignor Gordon became the Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia of the Diocese.
In 2021, Pope Francis named Bishop Gordon Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Las Vegas, now the Archdiocese of Las Vegas, where he assists Archbishop Thomas and continues to serve as Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia of the Archdiocese.
In the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Gordon serves on the Subcommittee on the Church in Africa. He also serves within the Archdiocese as chaplain to the Catholic Medical Association, and is a member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, the Knights of Columbus, and the Knights of Peter Claver.
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James & Anna Romano
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Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation
Robert P. and Mary H. Evans Foundation
Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City
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