Joseph Chusak Sirisut
Joseph Chusak Sirisut is a Thai Roman Catholic prelate currently serving as the bishop of the Diocese of Nakhon Ratchasima in northeastern Thailand.
Life
Born at Bang Nok Kwaek, the center of the Diocese of Ratchaburi, he studied at the Sampran Major Seminary to become a priest. He received a B.A. in scholastic administration at the Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University and a Masters in Theology in the United States; he was ordained as priest on May 11, 1984.After ordination he was first headmaster of the Daruna school, and in 1986 he became administrator and director of the Ratchaburi Institute. The following year he was assigned to the Kanchanaburi parish and later to Ratchaburi parish. In 1995 he became assistant priest at St. Girolamo in Samut Songkram, becoming diocesan bursar and chancellor two years later. From 2000-2004 he was a Licentiate in Theology at St. Tomaso in Manila. Returning to Thailand, he was professor at the Sampran major seminary and director of the Centre for Cultural and Religious Research at Sam Phran.
On November 30, 2006, he was appointed as the bishop of Nakhon Ratchasima, and ordained on February 10, 2007, by his predecessor Joachim Phayao Manisap; co-Consecrators were the Apostolic nuncio in Thailand, Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, and George Yod Phimphisan, Bishop of Udon Thani.