Pittsburgh auxiliary bishop elected to administer diocese

Published: 2006-06-28

PITTSBURGH (CNS) -- Pittsburgh Auxiliary Bishop Paul J. Bradley was elected administrator of the Pittsburgh Diocese June 26. He will head the diocese until a new bishop is installed to succeed Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl, the former Pittsburgh bishop who was installed as the new archbishop of Washington June 22. "The main responsibility of the administrator is to try to just continue to provide oversight on a day-to-day basis of the normal operations of this diocesan church," Bishop Bradley said at a news conference at St. Paul Seminary in Crafton shortly after the diocesan College of Consultors elected him administrator. Bishop Bradley, 60, has been a priest since 1971. He was named auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh in December 2004 and was ordained a bishop Feb. 2, 2005. He was diocesan vicar general and general secretary of the diocesan curia under then-Bishop Wuerl.

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