NEW JERSEY
The Jersey Journal
By Charles Hack/The Jersey Journal
on September 25, 2013
Just after it was announced that he appointed as coadjutor the New Jersey’s largest diocese yesterday morning, Archbishop Bernard Hebda headed to a Hoboken church with Archbishop John J. Myers in the afternoon to make his first parish visit.
There the two archbishops met with Hebda’s old friend and fellow alumni of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Italy, The Rev. Robert S. Meyer, pastor of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church at Hudson and Fourth streets.
Yesterday morning it was announced that Hebda would Myers in running the state’s largest diocese and eventually take over.
“I’m honored that he came here as his first parish visit,” Meyer said yesterday after the visit, adding that Hebda promised to return in November. “I believe that Archbishop Myers suggested that Hoboken is a great, vibrant and active community of faith.”
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