KENTUCKY
Lexington Herald-Leader
BY JIM WARREN
jwarren@herald-leader.com
March 12, 2015
Pope Francis appointed an Ohio native as the new bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Lexington early Thursday, according to a diocese press release.
The time and date for Rev. John Stowe’s ordination and installation as the third bishop of Lexington will be announced later, the diocese said. Stowe will be coming to Lexington from Carey, Ohio, where he is pastor and rector of the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation.
The Lexington diocese has been vacant since Bishop Ronald W. Gainer was named Bishop of Harrisburg, Pa., last year. Rev. Robert H. Nieberding has been the diocesan administrator in the interim.
Stowe was born April 15, 1966, in Lorain, Ohio, and attended grade school at a school staffed by Conventual Franciscans. He joined the formation program for the Conventual Franciscan Province of Our Lady of Consolation at St. Bonaventure Friary in St. Louis, after he attended community college for a year.
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