Posted on 11/23/2010 10:17:37 AM PST by 0beron
(kreuz.net, Basel) Msgr Felix Gmür is the new Bishop of Basel, according to the Vatican Press Service.
Pope Benedict XVI, had assumed the choice of the Basel Cathedral on the Feast of the Nativity of Mary on the 8th of September.
Prior to that, Msgr Gmür worked as necktie priest and General Secretary of the Swiss Bishops conference.
A further speculation of the protestant journalist and church-hater Micheal Meier, that it would have been Dennis Theurillat (60), has proven itself to be false.
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