STEUBENVILLE (OH)
The Herald-Star
July 3, 2012
By DAVE GOSSETT – Staff writer (dgossett@heraldstaronline.com.) , The Herald-Star
STEUBENVILLE – A 49-year-old Michigan parish priest was introduced today as the new bishop to lead the nearly 40,000 Catholics of the Diocese of Steubenville.
Monsignor Jeffrey Marc Monforton was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to become the fifth bishop of the 13-county diocese, filling the one-year vacancy created when Bishop R. Daniel Conlon was appointed bishop of the Joliet, Ill., Catholic diocese.
Monforton officially was introduced at a 10 a.m. press conference today at the diocesan Chancery offices.
“I am very grateful and deeply humbled for our Holy Father to entrust me with the faithful of the Steubenville Diocese,” said Bishop-designate Monforton.
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