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Toledo Blade
BY TK BARGER
BLADE RELIGION EDITOR
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo has a new bishop. At a press conference at the diocese‘s Catholic Center today, Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, who has been serving as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, will be introduced as the eighth bishop of Toledo, succeeding Archbishop Leonard P. Blair, who in December 2013 was installed as archbishop of Hartford in Connecticut.
Bishop Thomas, 55, was appointed to the post by Pope Francis. He had been named auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006, and a monsignor in 1995 by Pope John Paul II. He was ordained a priest in 1985. Bishop Thomas was born in Philadelphia and has served in ministry in Pennsylvania and Rome.
Bishop Thomas will be installed in Toledo at a Mass at Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral, on Oct. 22.
As a member of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, he continues his service on the council’s committees for clergy, consecrated life and vocations, and divine worship and the ad hoc committee on catechism.
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