TOLEDO (OH)
The Blade
Bishop Leonard Blair, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Toledo for the past 10 years, has been appointed by Pope Francis as the new archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hartford, Conn., it was announced today.
Bishop Blair will be officially introduced as the new archbishop during a 10 a.m. news conference at the Archdiocesan Center at Saint Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, Conn. today. The news conference will be streamed on the archdiocesan Web site at: archdioceseofhartford.org and ortv.org.
Bishop Blair, 64, has been the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Toledo since 2003. He was ordained a priest in 1976. He succeeds Archbishop Henry J. Mansell, who has been the Archbishop of Hartford since December, 2003, and who has passed the age of retirement.
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