PORTLAND (OR)
Catholic Sentinel
Ed Langlois
Staff Writer
The next Archbishop of Portland uses modern social media in the cause of proclaiming Jesus.
Archbishop-Designate Alexander Sample, current head of the Diocese of Marquette, Mich. maintains a Facebook page. And he kicked off the Year of Faith by tweeting throughout a 1,000-mile trip across Michigan’s far northern Upper Peninsula.
Archbishop-Designate Sample — tall and slim at 52 — made an even longer journey this week, appearing for the announcement that he’d been named spiritual leader of the 415,000 Catholics of western Oregon.
The Mass of Installation will be held on Tuesday, April 2.
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