The Most Reverend Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B. served as Archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 - 2002.

He was born in Patton, Pennsylvania, on April 2, 1927, one of the six children of Basil and Mary Kane Weakland. He graduated from Our Lady of Perpetual Help parochial school in Patton, and his high school, college, and philosophical studies were done in Latrobe, Pa., at St. Vincent Preparatory School, St. Vincent College, and St. Vincent Seminary, respectively.

He entered the Religious Life as a Benedictine novice at St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe in 1945 and was solemnly professed as a monk in that Order on September 29, 1949, at Solesmes Abbey in France. His theological studies for the Priesthood were done at the International Benedictine College of Sant'Anselmo in Rome, Italy, and at St. Vincent Seminary, Latrobe.