By Eugene W. Fields
The Orange County Register
January 5, 2009
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bishop-orange-diocese-2272780-auxiliary-soto
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| OC Diocese Auxiliary Bishop Jaime Soto officiates his last Orange County Mass at St. Boniface in Anaheim in 2007. He would go on be the second-in-command at the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento. |
New assistant to Bishop Tod Brown will fill vacancy left by Bishop Jaime Soto.
ORANGE - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange will announce Pope Benedict XVI's appointment of an auxiliary bishop for the diocese at 11 a.m. Monday
The new auxiliary bishop will take up the position vacated by Bishop Jaime Soto, appointed as coadjutor bishop of Sacramento in 2007. The principal focus of an auxiliary bishop is to assist the Most Reverend Tod Brown, bishop of Orange, in the administration of the diocese.
Jaime Soto, a Stanton native, served in the Diocese of Orange from July 1986 until October 2007.
Church officials said the Vatican will not reveal the identity of Soto's replacement until Monday's news conference. “He has a very strong and interesting background and I think he'll bring a lot to the position,” Ryan Lilyengren, the diocese's spokesman, said Sunday of the new auxiliary bishop.
The Orange diocese is home to about 1.2 million parishioners.
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