Andrew H. Cozzens
Andrew Harmon Cozzens was born August 3, 1968, in Denver, Colorado. He attended Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, served with NET Ministries and the Companions of Christ, and entered the Saint Paul Seminary in 1993. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis on May 31, 1997. He earned a licentiate (2003) and doctorate (2006) in sacred theology at the Angelicum in Rome, writing on priestly spirituality, and returned to teach sacramental theology and direct liturgy at the Saint Paul Seminary.
Pope Francis named him titular bishop of Bisica and auxiliary bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis on October 11, 2013; he was consecrated December 9, 2013. As auxiliary he chaired the USCCB Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis and, in June 2021, announced a three-year National Eucharistic Revival to renew belief in the Real Presence.
Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Crookston, Minnesota, on October 18, 2021, and he was installed as the diocese's eighth bishop on December 6, 2021, taking leadership of a small, largely rural northern-Minnesota diocese emerging from bankruptcy. As Bishop of Crookston he served as board chairman of National Eucharistic Congress, Inc., which organized the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, July 17-21, 2024. He is widely regarded as doctrinally orthodox and focused on Eucharistic devotion, and remains Bishop of Crookston as of mid-2026.
Bishop Cozzens is by reputation orthodox, pious, and relentlessly focused on the Eucharist. That focus, however, runs almost entirely through the Novus Ordo and the Eucharistic Revival he built; his personal record on the Traditional Latin Mass is thin, and what exists is neutral rather than warm. He has issued no Traditionis Custodes decree, no ad orientem or altar-rail directive, and designated no diocesan TLM site in Crookston. The diocese does not appear in the principal TC diocesan-response database, and there is no FSSP or ICKSP apostolate within it.
On the plus side for tradition: nothing indicates he has suppressed, capped, or moved any diocesan Latin Mass in Crookston, and there may simply have been little diocesan Extraordinary Form presence to regulate in this small northern diocese. As board chairman of the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress, his organization accommodated a Traditional Latin Mass in Indianapolis (offered by Archbishop Cordileone), which drew overflow crowds; he did not exclude it. His only direct link to TC enforcement is his earlier role chairing the Saint Paul study task force, where the actual status-quo faculties were granted by Archbishop Hebda.
The honest reading is a mixed, deeds-thin record. He is a friend of Eucharistic reverence and no enemy of traditional Catholics, but he is not a demonstrated patron or defender of the traditional Roman Rite. Absent any pro-TLM act of his own, and absent any hostile one either, he lands as a mixed record: an orthodox, Eucharist-centered bishop whose posture toward the ancient Mass is, so far, simply undocumented.