OREGON
The Oregonian
By Nancy Haught, The Oregonian
on January 29, 2013
Although he’s known for almost two weeks that he would be the next Archbishop of Portland, Alexander King Sample, 52, has yet to watch his first episode of “Portlandia.”
“Maybe it’s just as well,” he said to a roomful of archdiocesan staff members who were chuckling at his admission.
The bishop of Marquette, Mich., for the past seven years, Sample will succeed Archbishop John G. Vlazny, 75, who plans to retire to Beaverton after his 15 years as leader of Western Oregon’s 400,000 Catholics.
“This is the age of Google,” Sample said in his first news conference and informal staff meeting at the archdiocesan pastoral center. He said he’d used Google maps to turn St. Mary’s Cathedral around on his computer screen and figured out the correct pronunciation of Willamette and Oregon.
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