The Vatican website has announced the appointment:
http://212.77.1.245/news_services/bulletin/news/18200.php?index=18200&lang=en
It's in Italian, but I can figure it out.
I'm glad this is someone from Boston and NOT from Cleveland, there's way too much cronyism in the chancery as it is. I hope he brings a big push broom so that he can sweep all the radical nuns and useless bureaucrats out of the chancery. Whew, 25 years of Bishop Pilla's reign have finally come to an end.
"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones." St. Teresa of Avila
VATICAN CITY, APR 4, 2006 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Richard Gerard Lennon, auxiliary of the archdiocese of Boston, U.S.A., as bishop of Cleveland (area 8,842, population 2,853,155, Catholics 802,767, priests 583, permanent deacons 191, religious 1,446), U.S.A. He succeeds Bishop Anthony Michael Pilla, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese, the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
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