Msgr. Guglielmone to become bishop of Charleston

A rare Saturday appointment:

VATICAN CITY, 24 JAN 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father .... Appointed Msgr. Robert E. Guglielmone of the clergy of the diocese of Rockville Centre, U.S.A., rector of Saint Agnes Cathedral, as bishop of Charleston (area 80,401, population 4,254,000, Catholics 176,372, priests 141, permanent deacons 91, religious 192), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in New York in 1945 and ordained a priest in 1978.

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