NEW YORK
Newsday
Updated December 9, 2016
By Bart Jones bart.jones@newsday.com
Pope Francis on Friday named Bishop John O. Barres of Allentown, Pennsylvania, as the new bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, one of the largest Catholic dioceses in the country.
Barres, 56, will succeed Bishop William Murphy, who has led the diocese — home to 1.5 million Catholics — since Sept. 5, 2001. Barres will be the fifth bishop of the diocese, created in 1957 when it was carved.
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