by The Associated Press
Published: Mon, March 02, 2009 - 9:43 am CST
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Bishop Roger Morin of New Orleans has been named the third bishop of Biloxi, Miss.The Vatican announced on Monday that Morin, who turns 68 on
Saturday, will be installed in Biloxi on April 27.
Morin currently serves as vicar general, or second-in-command to
Archbishop Alfred Hughes.
A bishop since 2003, Morin served his entire 38-year career in
New Orleans, much of that time supervising anti-poverty programs. A
native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Morin came to New Orleans as a
seminarian in the summer of 1967 to work with the city's poor at
the invitation of Archbishop Philip Hannan.
Morin will become the third bishop of Biloxi, a diocese created
in 1977. Like New Orleans, it has been dedicated to rebuilding
after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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