Pope Francis names North Carolina priest auxiliary bishop for Atlanta

Catholic News Service
May 15, 2017

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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pope Francis has appointed Father Bernard E. Shlesinger III, a priest of the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, to be an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

Bishop-designate Shlesinger, 56, is currently the director of spiritual formation at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia.

The appointment was announced in Washington May 15 by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.