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	Pope Names Archbishop O'Brien to Head Baltimore Archdiocese Associated Press, carried in KGBT July 12, 2007 http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=6779633&nav=0w0v Baltimore (AP) - Pope Benedict has named a successor to Cardinal William Keeler as Roman Catholic archbishop of Baltimore. Bronx, New York, native Edwin O'Brien served as an auxiliary bishop in New York before taking over the Archdiocese for the Military Services in Washington in 1997. The Archdiocese for the Military Services serves about 1.5 million Catholics, including all in the military and their families. In 2005 and 2006, O'Brien coordinated a major evaluation of US seminaries that was ordered by the Vatican in response to the church sexual abuse crisis. The San Antonio-born Keeler submitted his resignation last year to the Vatican when he turned 75, as required by the church. He said in May that he planned to remain in Baltimore as head of the Basilica Historic Trust after his successor was named. The Archdiocese of Baltimore serves more than a half million Catholics in the city of Baltimore and nine counties in central and western Maryland.
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