PHILADELPHIA (PA)
GlobalPost
The retired Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia, Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, has died ahead of a church sex abuse trial.
The church said that Bevilacqua, 88, died in his sleep Tuesday night in his apartment at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
He had been battling dementia and an undisclosed form of cancer.
Bevilacqua’s 15 years “as shepherd of the 1.5 million-member Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia was marked by both celebration and crisis,” the Inquirer wrote.
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