NEW JERSEY
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
By Bill Zlatos
Published: Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013
Pope Francis has appointed Bernard A. Hebda, a former Pittsburgh priest and bishop of Gaylord, Mich., as the coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., local diocesan officials announced Tuesday.
Hebda was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Pittsburgh in 1989 and left the area in December 2009 to become the bishop of Gaylord.
According to the Star-Ledger of Newark, Hebda will assist John J. Myers in running New Jersey’s largest diocese, with more than 1.3 million Roman Catholics in Essex, Union, Hudson and Bergen counties. Myers has been archbishop since 2001.
As coadjutor archbishop, he will replace Myers at some point in the future.
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