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srcset="https://files.kofc.org/images/assets/Fr.+Bob+Higgins+Speaks+at+SK+Awards+Session.jpg/Zz0zMWRiNDMyNjkwNTExMWYxYjY4ZTkyMmIyOWJiY2IxZQ==?width=900&height=506" /><img src="https://files.kofc.org/images/assets/Fr.+Bob+Higgins+Speaks+at+SK+Awards+Session.jpg/Zz0zMWRiNDMyNjkwNTExMWYxYjY4ZTkyMmIyOWJiY2IxZQ==?width=900&height=506" alt="Fr. Bob Higgins Speaks at SK Awards Session.jpg" loading="eager" class="img" decoding="auto" width="900" height="506" /></picture> <figcaption class="caption"> <div class="rich-text "> South Carolina State Chaplain Father Robert F. Higgins speaks after receiving the Blessed Michael McGivney Medal during the Supreme Knight’s Awards Session in Denver on Aug. 3. (Photo by Paul Haring) </div> </figcaption> </figure> </section> <section class="col-article__content-rich-text"> <div class="score-rich-text-block default default"> <div class="content-area "> <div class="rich-text "> <p>Father Robert Higgins, state chaplain and district friar of South Carolina, received the 2026 Blessed Michael McGivney Medal during the Supreme Knight’s Awards Session on the eve of the 144th Supreme Convention in Denver on Aug. 3.</p> <p>Established in 2022, the award is given annually to a Knights of Columbus chaplain whose priestly zeal and exemplary service are in the finest traditions of Blessed Michael McGivney, the Order’s founder.</p> <p>Father Higgins, who has served as South Carolina state chaplain for 19 years, is parochial vicar of St. John Neumann Parish in Columbia, South Carolina. He has also served as chaplain at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, chaplain to the Port of Charleston and, following in the footsteps of Father McGivney, as the diocese’s first vicar of prisons, ministering to souls in four federal prisons, 24 state prisons and 48 county jails.</p> <p>“Father Bob is a man of great charity and great patience,” said Dominican Father Jonathan Kalisch, director of chaplains and spiritual development for the Knights of Columbus. “He is a man of action and a man who always puts his faith forward and into action, and he really embodies the mission of the Knights, which is a charity that evangelizes.”</p> <p>Fluent in English and Spanish, Father Higgins has also ministered extensively to Hispanic Catholics. During his appointment at St. Mary of the Angels Catholic Church in Anderson, Father Higgins worked with the local council to start a round table for Spanish-speaking members. He also began offering the first Mass in Spanish on the Charleston Peninsula and established a Knights of Columbus Hispanic roundtable at St. Patrick’s Church in Walterboro. While at St. Patrick’s, a historically Black Catholic church, Father Higgins was instrumental in developing a working relationship between the local Knights of Peter Claver and Knights of Columbus council.</p> <p>Father Higgins is now learning Vietnamese to offer Mass in the language.</p> <p>His ministry has also extended to Catholic education: Father Higgins founded and built Holy Trinity Catholic School in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.</p> <p>He has attended every Supreme Convention since 2008, participated in the Order’s Warriors to Lourdes pilgrimages in 2014 and 2015, and has led Knights on pilgrimages through Italy and Mexico.</p> <p>“The Knights see something in us that we don’t see in ourselves,” Father Higgins said in his acceptance speech. “If by receiving this Blessed Michael J. 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