CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Times
By Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times
September 22, 2012
A Texas bishop was appointed Friday to lead the fastest-growing Catholic parish in the nation, Pope Benedict XVI announced.
Kevin W. Vann, 61, will succeed Tod Brown as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange at a formal ceremony in December. Brown, who has been leader of the Orange County diocese since 1998, reached the Vatican’s mandatory retirement age of 75 last November.
“Bishop Vann enjoys an enviable record of success and I am exceedingly pleased by his appointment,” Brown said at a news conference in Orange.
The diocese, he said, has accomplished much in the 14 years since he has been bishop, but “much work remains to be done.”
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