Chicago Tribune
May 17, 2011
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A bishop of a Roman Catholic diocese in Ohio has been named to head the diocese of Joliet, officials said today.
Rev. R. Daniel Conlon will be the fifth bishop for the Joliet diocese, which includes 655,000 Catholics throughout seven counties in northeast Illinois, church officials said.
Conlon is expected to be installed on July 14 at the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus in Joliet, according to a statement.
Conlon succeeds Bishop J. Peter Sartain, who left the diocese when he was installed as archbishop of Seattle in December. The day-to-day operations of the diocese have been handled by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Siegel, the diocesan administrator.
Conlon,62, was born in Cincinnati and is the oldest of six children. He completed a master of divinity degree in 1975 at the Athenaeum of Ohio Mt. St. Mary's Seminary of the West in Cincinnati and was ordained a priest on Jan. 15, 1977, officials said.
He has served as associated pastor, pastor and held top positions with the archdiocese of Cincinnati and earned a doctor of canon law and doctor of philosophy at St. Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario. He was installed as bishop of Steubenville in 2002, officials said.
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