CAMDEN (NJ)
NJ.com
By Jason Laday/South Jersey Times
on January 08, 2013
CAMDEN — Pope Benedict XVI has appointed a new leader for the Camden Diocese following Bishop Joseph Galante’s decision to retire due to ongoing health issues.
Dennis J. Sullivan, ordained as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of New York in 2004, will replace the outgoing bishop. The 67-year-old native New Yorker stated he will bring his experience as a priest in some of the poorest areas of Manhattan and the south Bronx to the diocese containing New Jersey’s most dangerous city.
“I bring here to this local church my experience as a priest and a bishop, but I have always been a pastor, leading and guiding different flocks, and allowing myself to be guided by them as well,” said Sullivan at an introductory press conference at the diocesan offices on Market Street.
Explaining what he felt was Catholicism’s role communities such as Camden, Sullivan stated “the church must walk with the poor.”
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