BALTIMORE (MD)
The Catholic Review
[New Archbishop: Watch Live Press Conference at 10:30 AM]
By Jennifer Williams
jwilliams@CatholicReview.org
Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop William Edward Lori, 60, of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., as the 16th archbishop of Baltimore. Archbishop Lori will be formally installed as head of the Premier See May 16.
Archbishop Lori succeeds Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien, who took the helm of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in 2007. Cardinal O’Brien was named grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher in August 2011 and continues to serve as apostolic administrator for the Baltimore archdiocese until his successor’s installation.
Archbishop Lori will be introduced to the Archdiocese of Baltimore by Cardinal O’Brien at a news conference today at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at 10:30 a.m.
Archbishop Lori, who hails from Louisville, Ken., was installed as the fourth bishop of the Bridgeport diocese in 2001. The Connecticut leader, who has a bachelor’s degree from St. Pius X Seminary in Kentucky, is acquainted with the Archdiocese of Baltimore, having earned a master’s degree from Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg in 1977.
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