# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-pates
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:50:16.609Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-pates"
name: "Richard Pates"
slug: "richard-pates"
description: "Richard Edmund Pates is an American Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Des Moines in Iowa from 2008 to 2019 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota from 2000 to 2008."
tagline: "American Roman Catholic bishop"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bishop_Pates'_Ordination.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1943-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "ريتشارد باتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Edmund_Pates"
    title: "Richard Edmund Pates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pates"
    title: "Richard Pates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Edmund_Pates"
    title: "Richard Edmund Pates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Edmund_Pates"
    title: "Richard Edmund Pates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisdom_Des_Moines"
    title: "Bisdom Des Moines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Pates"
    title: "Richard E. Pates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pates"
    title: "Richard Pates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Edmund_Pates"
    title: "Richard Edmund Pates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pates"
    title: "Richard Pates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Edmund_Pates"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump