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VATICAN CITY, 16 DEC 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Paul Stagg
Coakley of Salina, U.S.A., as metropolitan archbishop of Oklahoma City (area
109,997, population 2,555,000, Catholics 116,619, priests 146, permanent
deacons 92, religious 150), U.S.A. The archbishop-elect was born in Norfolk,
U.S.A. in 1955, he was ordained a priest in 1983 and consecrated a bishop in
2004. He succeeds Archbishop Eusebius Joseph Beltran, whose resignation from
the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.
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