FORT WORTH (TX)
Star-Telegram
By Darren Barbee
dbarbee@star-telegram.com
Fort Worth Bishop Kevin Vann, who led the diocese through a tumultuous period of gut-wrenching exposure of child abuse, is headed west.
Pope Benedict XVI has named Vann, who saw the Fort Worth diocese expand by nearly 80 percent to 700,000 Roman Catholics, as the new bishop of the Orange, California Catholic Diocese. Vann’s new job starts in December.
Vann, 61, was installed as the bishop on in July 2005 after the death of ailing Bishop Joseph Delaney.
Vann will become the fourth bishop of the Orange Diocese. That diocese has an estimated 1.3 million Catholics.
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