Archbishop Dolan named chairman of Catholic Relief Services board

Published: 2007-12-14

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of Milwaukee has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' overseas relief and development agency. The appointment, confirmed by Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the bishops' conference, was announced in a Dec. 13 news release. Archbishop Dolan, a CRS board member since January 2007, succeeds Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg, Fla., who had been chairman since 2001 and has been a member of the CRS board since 1995. Ordained to the priesthood in 1979, Father Dolan was secretary to the apostolic nunciature in Washington for five years before serving as rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. In 2001 then-Msgr. Dolan was ordained to the episcopate when he was appointed auxiliary bishop in his native St. Louis. A year later, he was appointed archbishop of Milwaukee.

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