Posted on 01/29/2013 3:25:43 PM PST by NYer
.- Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Alexander K. Sample of Marquette, Mich., to shepherd the archbishop of Portland, Ore.
In a Jan. 29 statement, Archbishop-designate Sample noted his “excitement and joy at taking up this new challenge that God has placed before me.”
“I have always tried to be obedient to the will of God and to accept whatever the Church asks of me to be God’s will,” he said Tuesday.
“It is in this spirit that I have said 'yes' to the Holy Father’s request for me to serve the Church in a new place in western Oregon.”
However, he said he is leaving the Catholic Church in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula “with a certain heaviness of heart.”
“I will profoundly miss the people, the clergy and religious of the diocese. I will miss my brother priests in a special way, since I was chosen from among them to be their bishop.”
The 52-year-old archbishop-designate will succeed Archbishop John G. Vlazny, who submitted his resignation last year when he reached the canonical age limit of 75.
Archbishop-designate Sample has been Bishop of Marquette since 2006. He was 45 at the time of his ordination and was the youngest U.S. bishop at the time.
He serves on U.S. bishops’ conference subcommittees on Native American Catholics and on the catechism. He is vice-postulator for the canonization cause of Venerable Frederic Baraga, the Diocese of Marquette’s first bishop.
The archbishop-designate was born in Kalispell, Montana in 1960. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in metallurgical engineering before completing philosophy studies at the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. in 1986, the Diocese of Marquette reports. He studied for the priesthood at the Pontifical College Josephinum Seminary in Ohio and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Marquette on June 1, 1990 by Bishop Mark F. Schmitt.
There are more than 415,000 Catholics in the western Oregon archdiocese, where they make up 12 percent of the archdiocese’s total population. There are 150 diocesan priests, almost 400 women religious, 78 brothers and 79 permanent archdeacons.
The archdiocese has 124 parishes, 22 missions, 40 Catholic elementary schools, 10 Catholic high schools, two Catholic colleges and universities and 10 Catholic hospitals.
The archdiocese is the second oldest in the U.S. after Baltimore. Its present territory is almost 30,000 square miles and reaches the state borders of Washington and California.
Archbishop-designate Sample will serve as administrator of the Diocese of Marquette until he is installed as archbishop in Portland.
Bud Bunce, the Archdiocese of Portland's director of communications, told CNA that Archbishop-designate Sample's installation will take place on April 2. The time and venue are still to be determined.
Congratulations to Bishop Sample and the Portland Archdiocese!
52? Wow. He looks more like he’s 35. I’m getting old.
For Latin Mass: St. Birgitta Catholic Church
The Parish has the permission of the archbishop for the use of St. Birgitta Catholic Church as the location within his Diocese to provide the Mass and all Sacraments according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite to any who so desire them.St. Birgitta’s Catholic Church
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The National Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother: The Grotto
For a wonderful experience for any Catholic
And visit the Maronite Mass at St. Sharbel in Portland. People drive all the way from Salem to attend that Mass.
I do know about a Byzantine Mass at St. Irene as one of the priests used to travel to our area in Washington State once or twice a month.
(meant to ping NYer on the last comment)
Salvation, do you know if they’ve made any progress repairing the vandalism at The Grotto?
There are 2 Maronite Eparchies (dioceses) in the US - one on the East Coast and the other on the West Coast. There is also a large community of Maronites in the west. Click here, to find a parish in the western part of the US.
He somehow looks to me like a baseball cap would suit him as well as the skullcap he is wearing. (I’ve forgotten the name of a bishop’s little hat).
Probably. The Servites run the Grotto. I haven’t checked though.
Zucchetto
thank you. That was not going to come to mind.
thank you. That was not going to come to mind.
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