FORT WORTH (TX)
Star-Telegram
Bishop Kevin Vann in Fort Worth
May 2005 — Vann, formerly a monsignor in the Springfield, Ill., diocese, is appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to lead the 28-county Fort Worth Diocese, replacing Joseph Delaney, who had been bishop since September 1981.
July 12, 2005 — Delaney, who had been ill for years, dies on the eve of Vann’s ordination as successor.
July 13, 2005 — Vann is installed as third bishop of the dioceses.
February 2006 — The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests delivers a letter to Vann, urging him to call for the Rev. Joseph Tu Ngoc Nguyen’s removal from a Houston parish. Nguyen had formerly worked at an Arlington church, where he was accused of sexual misconduct with six women and girls.
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