Maine:

Appointed Bishop Richard Joseph Malone, auxiliary of Boston, U.S.A.,
asbishop of Portland (area 85,541, population 1,274,923, Catholics 213,680,
priests 211, permanent deacons 23, religious 471), U.S.A. The bishop-elect
was born in Salem, U.S.A. in 1946 and was ordained a priest in 1972. The
Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the same
diocese presented by Bishop Joseph John Gerry, O.S.B., upon having reached
the age limit

I really have to wonder about that Catholic population number. It seems very low. Granted there are lots ‘o Congregationalists and Unitarians up there (yes – the big church on the square in Sanford, Maine, where I spent a lot of time, was a Unitarian Church), but I would have thought that Catholics would have been at least a third of the population….Wrong, I guess.

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