DENVER (CO)
The Denver Post
Posted: 05/29/2012
The Vatican this morning named Fargo, N.D., Bishop Samuel J. Aquila as the fifth archbishop of the Denver Archdiocese.
For Aquila, a conservative bishop cut from the same cloth as his predecessor here, Charles Chaput, it’s a homecoming.
Although the 61-year-old Aquila is a native of Burbank, Calif., he was ordained a priest here in 1976 and served in local parish ministry for 11 years.
Aquila held several positions in the Denver Archdiocese in education and liturgy until 1999, when he became the founding rector of St. John Vianney Seminary.
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