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	Cardinal Rigali Retires; Pope Names Archbishop Chaput to Succeed Him Catholic News Service July 19, 2011 http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/Cardinal%20Rigali%20retires;%20pope%20names%20Archbishop%20Chaput%20to%20succeed%20him WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and appointed Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput to succeed him as head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The changes were announced July 19 in Washington by Msgr. Jean-Francois Lantheaume, charge d'affaires at the apostolic nunciature in Washington. The priest also announced the pope accepted the resignation of Bishop J. Kevin Boland of Savannah, Ga., and appointed as his replacement Father Gregory Hartmayer, a Conventual Franciscan priest who currently is pastor of St. John Vianney Parish in Little Springs, Ga.
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