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Catholic Sentinel

Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis has appointed Father Andrew Cozzens, an associate professor at St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity in St. Paul, Minn., as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Bishop-designate Cozzens, 45, was ordained a priest of the archdiocese in 1997. He has been on the faculty of St. Paul Seminary since 2006.

The appointment was announced Oct. 11 by Msgr. Angelo Accatino, charge d’affaires at the apostolic nunciature in Washington.

The newly named bishop’s ordination Mass will be celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Paul Dec. 9, which is the feast of the Immaculate Conception.