NEW JERSEY
Edmonton Journal
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
NEWARK, N.J. – The Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, is getting a second archbishop.
The National Catholic Reporter reports on its website Monday that Pope Francis is appointing a coadjutor archbishop to assist Archbishop John Myers.
The Reporter says the bishop of Gaylord, Mich., Bernard Hebda, will be named to the post Tuesday.
A co-adjutor bishop immediately succeeds a diocesan bishop who retires or dies.
Myers is 72, about three years from mandatory retirement. He’s been under fire for his handling of the case of the Rev. Michael Fugee.
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