{"id":7762,"date":"2004-03-09T08:48:21","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T08:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/slew_of_new_bishops.html"},"modified":"2004-03-09T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T08:48:21","slug":"slew_of_new_bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/slew_of_new_bishops.html","title":{"rendered":"Slew of new bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s &#8220;Make new American bishops day&#8221; at the Vatican, I guess:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8211; Appointed Bishop Robert Joseph McManus, auxiliary of the diocese of Providence, U.S.A., as bishop of Worcester (area 3,966, population 762,207, Catholics 390,207, priests 373, religious 650), U.S.A. He succeeds Bishop Daniel Patrick Reilly whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Appointed Msgr. Robert Joseph Cunningham, pastor of St. Louis Parish and diocesan administrator of the diocese of Buffalo, U.S.A. as bishop of Ogdensburg (area 31,161, population 462,000, Catholics 143,700, priests 143, permanent deacons 55, religious 175), U.S.A.  The bishop-elect was born in Buffalo in 1943 and was ordained a priest in 1969.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Appointed Bishop Timothy Anthony McDonnell, auxiliary of the archdiocese of New York, U.S.A., as bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts (area 7,306, population 790,000, Catholics 251,311, religious 195, permanent deacons 58, religious 619), U.S.A.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Appointed Msgr. Robert W. Finn, of the clergy of the archdiocese of St. Louis, and director of the diocesan magazine \u201cSt. Louis Review,\u201d as coadjutor bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph (area 39,946, population 1,394,054, Catholics 141,900, priests 204, permanent deacons 53, religious 437), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in St. Louis in 1953 and was ordained a priest in 1979.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey! Finally I can match my husband! I sorta know one of them &#8211; Msgr. Finn brought me to St. Louis in 2001 to speak at their Archdiocesan Eucharistic Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s &#8220;Make new American bishops day&#8221; at the Vatican, I guess: &#8211; Appointed Bishop Robert Joseph McManus, auxiliary of the diocese of Providence, U.S.A., as bishop of Worcester (area 3,966, population 762,207, Catholics 390,207, priests 373, religious 650), U.S.A. 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