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CajunRick
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Posted: Wed Nov 21st, 2007 12:26 am |
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GREAT FALLS, Montana, NOV. 20, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Bishop Michael Warfel of Juneau, Alaska, has been appointed to lead the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings.
Bishop Warfel, 59, succeeds Bishop Anthony Milone, who resigned for reasons of health in July. Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States, announced the appointment today.
Michael Warfel was born in 1948, in Elkhart, Indiana. In 1972, following military service in Vietnam and Korea, he began seminary studies. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska, in 1980. He was named to lead the Diocese of Juneau and ordained a bishop in 1996.
The Great Falls-Billings Diocese comprises the eastern part of the state of Montana. About 13% of the population of 391,360 people is Catholic.
The above article is reposted with permission from Zenit.
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