text: bishop joseph strickland on the covid 19 pandemic resuming public masses Bishop Joseph Strickland, 61, is Bishop of Tyler Texas.  He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Dallas in 1985, and was named Bishop of Tyler in 2012.  Despite being from a relatively small diocese, he is a high visibility bishop who is active on social media, maintaining a website and blog, and using a Twitter account that has 31,000 followers.