Two big announcements from the Vatican today:

In an unprecedented double-shot of Saturday appointments on these shores — and on the eve of the US bishops’ Baltimore plenary, no less — Pope Benedict has named:

* Bishop Jerome Listecki of LaCrosse as archbishop of Milwaukee. The Chicago native, 60, succeeds Archbishop Timothy Dolan, who was transferred to New York on 23 February…

* …and Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Harrisburg as bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend. A native son of the Pennsylvania capital, the Indiana-bound prelate, who turns 52 later this month, succeeds Bishop John D’Arcy — the nation’s oldest active prelate — who reached the retirement age of 75 in August 2007.

As always, visit Rocco for more.

And a footnote: the local press in Wisconsin is describing their incoming bishop — with relief, I suspect — as “Dolanesque.”