sentences:  He served as the parish priest at Saint John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Excelsior, Minnesota from 1971 to 1980.Bullock was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archdiocese and Titular Bishop of Natchesium on June 3, 1980, by Pope John Paul II, and was consecrated on August 12, 1980.On February 10, 1987, he was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Des Moines by Pope John Paul II, succeeding Maurice John Dingman.