Pope Benedict Announces Several New American Bishops

Fr Fernando Isern, 51, Cuban-born, currently a pastor and high-school president in Miami, as bishop of Pueblo, succeeding Bishop Arthur Tafoya, whose resignation was accepted 19 months after reaching the canonical age of 75;

Fr Paul Sirba, 49, vicar-general of St Paul and Minneapolis, as bishop of Duluth, succeeding Archbishop Dennis Schnurr,who was named coadjutor of Cincinnati a year ago this month;

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Msgr Robert Evans, 62, parish priest of Greenville, Rhode Island and onetime aide at Washington's apostolic nunciature, as auxiliary bishop of Providence.

Whispers has a lot of background on the Bishops and the Dioceses they are going too at And They're Off