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National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Nov. 12, 2013 NCR Today
Fall bishops’ meeting 2013
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.
Kurtz was installed as the fourth archbishop and ninth bishop of the archdiocese of Louisville on Aug. 15, 2007, according to the archdiocese’s website. Before going to Louisville, Kurtz served as bishop of Knoxville, Tenn., from 1999 to 2007, and before that served for 27 years in the diocese of Allentown, where he was in charge of social services, diocesan administration and parish ministry.
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