New chairmen take office in bishops' conference

Published: 2006-11-16

BALTIMORE (CNS) -- At the end of the Nov. 13-16 Baltimore meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, seven bishops took office as chairmen of USCCB committees. They were elected to those posts in November 2005, since the bishops have adopted a practice of choosing chairmen-elect a year beforehand to give the prospective new chairmen time to familiarize themselves with the responsibilities and activities of the committees they will head. Assuming offices as committee chairmen Nov. 16 were: Auxiliary Bishop Jaime Soto of Orange, Calif., the Committee on the Church in Latin America; Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco, the Committee on Communications; Bishop J. Terry Steib of Memphis, Tenn., the Committee on Consecrated Life; Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., the Committee on Doctrine; Bishop Michael W. Warfel of Juneau, Alaska, the Committee on the Home Missions; Bishop Robert J. Carlson of Saginaw, Mich., the Committee on Priestly Life and Ministry; and Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, the Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

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