From Baltimore to Maybe Pensacola- Tallahassee Florida Tuesday Looks Like Catholic Bishop Appointment Day- Updated

Whispers is telling us to be on the Watch Out for Roman Noon tomorrow ( the wee hours of dawn for us Americans) when a significant appointment will be accounced . It appears that the new Archbishop of Baltimore , the historic Mother Archdiocese for the American Church, is to be picked and we have a name. See Son of Hickey, Heir of Carroll -- Bishop Lori Tipped for Baltimore

On another front we have rumblings out of Florida. Thomas Pringle , who has his ear close to the ground on these things, on his twitter says " Hearing that there will be some kind of announcement in the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee from multiple sources."

The See of Pensacola- Tallahassee has been Vacant since March 11, 2011 and the longest with a vacancyon the list of current vacant See's in the USA. The former Bishop was Bishop John Huston Ricard, S.S.J. So we shall what develops down there tomorrow.

Update-!! We haave just not two Bishop but 3 APPOINTED ( Actually 4 if we count Canada which is also in the news)

As Rocco reports:

At Roman Noon, the Pope:
has, as reported here last night, named Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport as the 16th archbishop of Baltimore;

tapped Msgr David Malloy -- a priest of Milwaukee and, from 2005 until last June, General Secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops -- as bishop of Rockford, succeeding Bishop Thomas Doran, who reached the retirement age of 75 in February 2011;


and appointed Fr Gregory Parkes, 48, vicar-general of Orlando, as bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee, succeeding Bishop John Ricard SSJ, who took early retirement in February 2011 following a stroke. Ordained in 1999, Parkes becomes the first priest of the Disney diocese to be raised to the episcopacy.

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There was also HUGE news North of the Border in Montreal on the Bishop Front

And to the North, in a shocking move, B16 has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Christian Lepine of Montreal -- only named a bishop last June -- as the next archbishop of Francophone Canada's premier church, traditionally a cardinalatial see. He succeeds Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, who reached the retirement age last summer....

Busy morning.


Update II

The note in Italian has hit the Vatican web site

Update- III

First Look At Fr. Gregory Parkes - New Catholic Bishop of Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee