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FALL RIVER, Mass. –
With fanfare and ceremony, Edgar Moreira da Cunha entered the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption on Wednesday to be installed as the eighth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River.
“Twenty-one years ago, I was sitting in that hot seat,” said Cardinal Sean O’Malley of the Boston Archdiocese, who presided over the installation.
O’Malley served as bishop of Fall River from 1992 to 2002.
O’Malley was among the respected clergy members on hand for the ceremony to welcome da Cunha, but to also say goodbye to retiring Bishop George Coleman. …
Demonstrators from Road to Recovery, an organization for clergy abuse victims, gathered across from the cathedral.
“Actually, I was abused in the diocese where this bishop was coming from,” said one man.
The protesters made the trip from New Jersey, where they are members of the bishop’s former diocese. They made claims of several incidents of sexual abuse under da Cunha’s watch.
“How a man like this could be appointed as a bishop, period, and now the head bishop of a diocese, is beyond me,” said Bob Hoatson of Road to Recovery.
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