OAKLAND (CA)
Mercury News
By Angela Woodall
Oakland Tribune
Posted: 05/03/2013 1
Father Michael Barber will become bishop of Oakland, ending a 7-month stretch without a permanent diocese leader.
Barber, whose family has roots in the Bay Area, will be ordained May 25, taking the reigns of an ethnically and politically diverse diocese that stretches from Oakland to Danville.
“I am humbled to be the first Jesuit priest to be appointed bishop by a Jesuit pope,” Barber said just hours after the announcement became public Friday.
“It’s about time the appointment was made,” said Archbishop Alex Brunett, who has served as administrator for the diocese since the departure in July of Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, who became archbishop of the San Francisco archdiocese.
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