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13-06-2009

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VATICAN CITY, 12 JUN 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Gregory Michael Aymond of Austin, U.S.A., as metropolitan archbishop of New Orleans (area 10,898, population 1,069,428, Catholics 384,994, priests 369, permanent deacons 183, religious 721), U.S.A. The archbishop-elect was born in New Orleans in 1949, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and consecrated a bishop in 1997. He succeeds Archbishop Alfred Clifton Hughes, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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