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Former Detroit seminary rector named bishop of Steubenville
Published: July 3, 2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has named Msgr. Jeffrey M. Monforton, rector-president of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit for the past six years, as bishop of Steubenville, Ohio. The appointment was announced July 3 at the Vatican. Bishop-designate Monforton, 49, succeeds Bishop R. Daniel Conlon, 63, who was named in May 2011 as bishop of Joliet, Ill. The new bishop also served from 1998 to 2005 as priest-secretary to now-retired Cardinal Adam J. Maida, who was then archbishop of Detroit, and had most recently been pastor of St. Andrew Parish in Rochester, the Detroit Archdiocese's largest parish. No date has been set for his episcopal ordination and installation as bishop of Steubenville.
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