Michael Charles Barber, S.J. is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He is the fifth and current bishop of Oakland. After attending Saint Pius X Preparatory School in Galt, California, Barber entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1973. After beginning his studies at Loyola Marymount University, he received his BA in Philosophy and History at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington in 1978. From 1982 to 1985 he studied sacred theology at Regis College at the University of Toronto. In 1989, he obtained a licentiate in systematic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained a priest for the Society of Jesus on June 8, 1985. He made his final vows in 2005. After ordination he held the following positions: Missionary in Apia, Western Samoa, Assistant Professor at the Gregorianum; Tutor and Chaplain at the University of Oxford in England and Bursar of the Jesuit community at Campion Hall, Director of the School of Pastoral Leadership for the Archdiocese of San Francisco with residence at Saint Agnes Parish, and then, at the Saint Ignatius College in San Francisco; professor and spiritual director at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park. 

July 13th, 1954 in (Age 69)