Pope Appoints Successor to Resigning Sacramento Bishop
Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation of Monsignor Francis A. Quinn as bishop of Sacramento and has appointed a successor from Utah, the Vatican announced today.
No reason was given for the resignation of the 72-year-old Quinn, bishop of Sacramento since 1979. Quinn announced earlier that he was retiring.
The Pope appointed Bishop William K. Weigand of Salt Lake City as his successor.
Weigand, 56, has held the Utah post since 1980. From 1968-78, he served as a missionary in Colombia, according to a brief Vatican biography.
Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, the Vatican’s ambassador to the United States, discussed the transfer with the bishop last month when Weigand was in Washington, D.C., for discussions concerning the sale of Holy Cross Hospital.
Weigand will be ordained bishop of Sacramento at a formal Mass Jan. 27.
His successor has not been named by the Vatican, a process that could take a year. In the interim, an administrator chosen by seven priests, the bishop’s closest advisers, would oversee diocesan activities.
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