Pope names Bishop Aymond of Austin to head Archdiocese of New Orleans
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Gregory M. Aymond of Austin, Texas, 59, as archbishop of New Orleans.
The pope has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes, who turned 75 Dec. 2, 2007. Canon law requires all bishops to submit their resignation to the pope when they turn 75.
Archbishop Aymond’s appointment was announced June 12 in Washington by Msgr. Alexander Cifuentes Castano, charge d’affaires at the apostolic nunciature.
His installation Mass will be Aug. 20 at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.
Archbishop Aymond is a New Orleans native, born there Nov. 12, 1949. After grade school and high school, he went to St. Joseph Seminary College in St. Benedict, La., where he graduated in 1971. He earned a master’s degree in divinity from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans in 1975 and was ordained as a priest of the New Orleans Archdiocese the same year.
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