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Archbishop John Kwao Amuzu Aggey 1965.07.06 – 1972.03.13 Archbishop Anthony Olubunmi Okogie 1973.04.13 – 2012.05.25 ( Cardinal in 2003) Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins since 2012.05.25
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.
The pastor of any particular church other than an ordinariate must be episcopally ordained, but his title conforms to that of his jurisdiction: the pastor of an archdiocese is an archbishop, the pastor of a diocese is a bishop, the pastor of an archeparchy is an archeparch, the pastor of an eparchy is an eparch, and the pastor of an exarchate is an exarch.
In 1756, a Maryland Catholic official estimated seven thousand practicing Catholics in Maryland and three thousand in Pennsylvania. [19] The Williamsburg Foundation estimates in 1765 Maryland Catholics at 20,000 and 6,000 in Pennsylvania. The population of these colonies at the time was approximately 180,000 and 200,000, respectively.
The Pennsylvania grand jury report was released in August 2018. [ 70 ] [ 71 ] It listed 99 priests who had served in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. [ 70 ] The report stated that some priests in the diocese ran a child porn ring in the 1970s and 1980s, saying they "used whips, violence and sadism in raping their victims."
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Archbishop Placide Louis Chapelle (201, at left) served as Apostolic Delegate to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish–American War. Archbishop John Murphy Farley (218) was created a cardinal in 1911. Archbishop William Henry O'Connell (244) was the first cardinal to be archbishop of Boston.
Martin Nicholas Lohmuller (1970–1994) Edward Thomas Hughes (1976–1986), appointed Bishop of Metuchen; Francis B. Schulte (1981–1985), appointed Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston and later Archbishop of New Orleans; Louis A. DeSimone (1981–1997) Edward Peter Cullen (1994–1997), appointed Bishop of Allentown