Each year, The Angelico Project presents the Fra Angelico Award to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to Catholic art, thought, and culture in our region. This year, we are honored to recognize The Most Reverend Dennis M. Schnurr, Archbishop Emeritus of Cincinnati, for nearly two decades of faithful service to the Church in Greater Cincinnati and southwest Ohio.

Over the course of his episcopacy, Archbishop Schnurr’s leadership profoundly shaped the spiritual, cultural, and institutional life of the local Church. His legacy includes deep investment in seminary formation and priestly vocations, strong support for lay evangelization, and encouragement of cultural and artistic initiatives—including his early and consistent support of The Angelico Project. He also led the historic One Faith, One Hope, One Love campaign, strengthening Catholic education, parish life, and the foundations that allow worship, beauty, and culture to flourish.

Perhaps most importantly, Archbishop Schnurr personally confirmed thousands of Catholics, ordained more than seventy priests, and helped foster one of the strongest periods of vocational growth the archdiocese has seen in decades. In honoring him with the Fra Angelico Award, we recognize a shepherd whose leadership helped lay the foundation and cultivate the conditions in which a mission like ours can take root and grow. His faithful labor over many years has, in no small way, helped prepare this region for the future we firmly believe God is calling it to: to become a center of a new renaissance of Catholic art, thought, and culture.