Coadjutor Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas will succeed him, according to an announcement today the Vatican press office.
Gerald Kicanas was born in Chicago on Aug. 18, 1941. He studied at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and Loyola University in Chicago, and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago on April 27, 1967. Named auxiliary bishop of Chicago on Jan. 24, 1995, he was appointed coadjutor of Tucson on Oct. 30, 2001.
The Diocese of Tucson comprises nine counties in the state of Arizona. It has a Catholic population of about 350,000 in a total population of about 1.4 million. Bishop Moreno had headed the diocese for 21 years.
