BALTIMORE (MD)
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Nov. 12, 2013 NCR Today
Fall bishops’ meeting 2013
BALTIMORE Returning to a tradition they broke three years ago, the U.S. bishops elected Tuesday morning as their new president the sitting vice president of the bishops’ conference, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Ky.
The bishops elected Kurtz on the first ballot Monday by a 53 percent majority: 125 votes of the 236 cast.
The next closest prelate in the running was Galveston-Houston Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, who received 25 votes. Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput received 20 votes.
Following Kurtz’s election, the election of the bishops’ vice president entered into a third ballot runoff between Chaput and DiNardo. The Texas cardinal won, receiving 63 percent on that ballot: 147 votes to Chaput’s 87.
Tuesday’s election means the Kentucky archbishop takes the reins of the bishops’ conference from New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who has led the conference for the last three years. The formal handover occurs Thursday afternoon at the end of the bishops’ annual assembly, being held this week in Baltimore.
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