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Pope names vicar general of Oklahoma City to head diocese in Kansas
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has named the vicar general of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, Msgr. Edward J. Weisenburger, to head the Diocese of Salina, Kan. Bishop-designate Weisenburger, 51, succeeds Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, who was appointed Oklahoma City's archbishop in December 2010. The appointment was announced Feb. 6 in Washington by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States. The date for Bishop-designate Weisenburger's ordination and installation as 11th bishop of Salina was to be announced in the near future. Edward J. Weisenburger was born Dec. 23, 1960, in Alton, Ill. He spent two years of his childhood in Hays, Kan., but grew up primarily in Lawton, Okla., where he graduated from Eisenhower High School in 1979. He attended Conception Seminary College in Conception, Mo., where he graduated with honors in 1983. He then attended the American College Seminary at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, where he earned a bachelor's degree in theology and master's degrees in religious studies and in moral and religious sciences. Ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City on Dec. 19, 1987, he was parochial vicar at St. Mary Church in Ponca City, Okla., until he was sent to the University of St. Paul in Ottawa, Ontario, where he earned a licentiate in canon law.
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