Early life James Terry Steib was born on May 17, 1940, in
Vacherie, Louisiana, one of five children of Rosemond and Vivian Steib. As a child, Steib worked with his family harvesting sugar cane. After his ordination, the Verbites assigned Steib to
Saint Stanislaus College in Bay St. Louis, teaching English, literature, religion, reading and speech to high school students. He also held a position as assistant dean of students at Saint Stanislaus from 1967 to 1969. In 1973, Steib graduated from
Xavier University in
New Orleans with a master's degree in guidance and counseling. Duran was eventually
defrocked. In 2006. the diocese settled the case for $2 million. When interviewed for a
deposition in the case, Steib had these comments:I don’t know that the church did not respond appropriately. I think it responded according to what it knew and believed at the time. I think that many of the times saw this as a very moral issue … and … you remove the person … from the temptation or the sin, you know.On December 21, 2015, the
Memphis City Council renamed a portion of Central Avenue as J. Terry Steib Lane in honor of the bishop. On August 23, 2016,
Pope Francis accepted Steib's letter of resignation as bishop of Memphis. ==See also==