From Whispers:This morning, Pope Benedict named [vicar general Msgr. Richard] Stika, pastor of the church of the Annunziata at Ladue and director of child protection in the St Louis curia, as the third head of the East Tennessee diocese. Born on the 4th of July, the 51 year-old cleric succeeds Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, who led the 60,000-member Knoxville church -- ranked the nation's healthiest by Crisis magazine in its 2007 report on the state of American Catholicism -- from December 1999 until his transfer to Louisville 19 months ago. [Read the rest here.]
"...the bishop-elect will be ordained and installed on St Joseph's Day, 19 March, in a Mass to be held in Knoxville's convention center."
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We have a bishop! Deo Gratias!
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