CALIFORNIA
Catholic News Agency
By Carl Bunderson
Washington D.C., Sep 21, 2012 / 09:46 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Kevin W. Vann of Fort Worth, Texas has been named the fourth bishop of Orange, Calif. by Pope Benedict XVI.
Bishop Vann will succeed Bishop Tod D. Brown, who offered his resignation to Pope Benedict earlier this year upon reaching the age limit of 75.
The appointment and resignation were both announced Sept. 21 in Washington, D.C. by Archbishop Carlo M. Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States.
Bishop Vann will shepherd the nation’s tenth largest and fastest growing diocese.
The diocese’s total population is 3.2 million, of whom 41 percent, or 1.3 million, are Catholic.
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