BALTIMORE (MD)
Catholic World Report
November 12, 2013
By Catherine Harmon
This morning the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, meeting in Baltimore for their annual fall assembly, elected Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky as the conference’s new president. He will begin his three-year term at the conclusion of the bishops’ meeting on Thursday morning, succeeding Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York as conference president.
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston was elected vice president of the USCCB; after three rounds of voting he beat out Philadelphia’s Archbishop Charles Chaput, 147-87.
Archbishop Kurtz has served as vice president of the bishops’ conference since 2010. While it is customary for the vice president to be elected president at the conclusion of the three-year term, it does not always play out that way; Dolan was elected president in 2010 rather than then-vice president Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson.
Archbishop Kurtz, 67, has been archbishop of Louisville since 2007, having served as bishop of Knoxville from 1999-2007. Ordained a priest for the Diocese of Allentown in 1972, he serves on the boards of the Catholic Extension Society and the National Catholic Bioethics Center.
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