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Charles Joseph Chaput OFMCap (/ ˈ ʃ æ p j uː / SHAP-yoo; [1] born September 26, 1944) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church.He was the ninth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, serving from 2011 until 2020.
The coadjutor assists an elderly or ailing archbishop or bishop with their administrative duties. After the archbishop or bishop retires or dies, the coadjutor normally succeeds him without an appointment by the pope. The pope appoints all coadjutors. In some rare cases, the pope will name a titular archbishop as the bishop of a suffragan diocese.
To replace Stafford, John Paul II selected Bishop Charles J. Chaput from the Diocese of Rapid City as the next archbishop of Denver. [20] Chaput became archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in 2011. In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Samuel Aquila of the Diocese of Fargo as the fifth and current archbishop of Denver. [21]
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On July 25, 2019, the Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, decreed that effective September 3, the church would be relegated to profane but not sordid use, [8] meaning that it would be closed as a place of worship and that St. Mary's Church would be permitted to sell it. [3]
She started an orphanage and an Italian national parish that still is functioning today, St. Donato's in West Philadelphia. Katharine Drexel John Nepomucene Neumann – A Redemptorist ; became the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia (1852–60) and the first U.S. bishop to be canonized; as bishop of Philadelphia, he founded the first Catholic ...
Nelson Jesus Pérez (born June 16, 1961) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the 10th Archbishop of Philadelphia, having been appointed by Pope Francis in January 2020. [1] He previously served as Bishop of Cleveland from 2017 to 2020 and was an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre from 2012 to 2017.
In 1948, Archbishop Richard Cushing campaigned against a Massachusetts referendum to loosen the state's ban on birth control. While the referendum failed, "deployment of the Church's political muscle," according to historian Leslie Tentler, offended non-Catholics and led Cushing to relax his position when the issue was debated again in the 1960s.