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Pope Francis named Williams as Coadjutor Bishop of Camden on May 21, 2024. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] He was received with a Mass of Welcome on September 10, 2024. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] He will assume the bishopric upon the retirement of Bishop Dennis Joseph Sullivan , presumed to be in March 2025 upon his 80th birthday.
Pope Francis appointed Spalding on November 21, 2017, as the twelfth bishop of Nashville. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was consecrated on February 2, 2018. by Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz , with Archbishop Christophe Pierre and Cardinal Justin Rigali serving as co-consecrators.
The next bishop of Nashville was David Choby, named by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. A study released in 2014 by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., cited the Diocese of Nashville as having the 8th highest rate of conversions to the Catholic Church. [18] Choby died in 2017. The ...
Watch as Pope Francis takes part in Easter Mass at the Vatican on Sunday 9 April.. Holy Week, as it is known, includes a busy schedule of rituals and ceremonies that can be physically exhausting ...
Bishop Shelton Fabre from the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux was named by Pope Francis in 2022 as archbishop of Louisville. [30] The archdiocese was sued in 2021 by Sarah Syring, a former Catholic school teacher. The archdiocese fired Syring after the single woman told them that she was pregnant.
Bishop Jimmie L. Williams, pastor of Lighthouse Worship Center Church of God in Christ in Fort Lauderdale, and prelate of the Florida Eastern Ecclesiastic Jurisdiction, which is comprised of 81 ...
Pope Francis celebrates the 10th anniversary of his election Monday, far outpacing the “two or three” years he once envisioned for his papacy and showing no signs of slowing down. On the ...
Francis appointed Archbishop Shelton Fabre of Louisville as apostolic administrator for the diocese until the pope named a new bishop. [21] On May 7, 2024, Pope Francis appointed James Mark Beckman, a native of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, and a priest in the Diocese of Nashville, as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Knoxville. [22]