— Monsignor Walter Hurley, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Farmington, Michigan. «I’ve always had good health and I certainly have always been a high-energy person,» Monsignor Hurley, 66, told the Detroit Free Press. «But I suspect I may be the oldest auxiliary bishop ever ordained here.» The native Canadian was ordained a priest in 1965.
— Monsignor John M. Quinn, director of the archdiocese’s Department of Education. He was born in 1945 in Detroit and was ordained a priest 1972.
— Father Francis Reiss, pastor of St. Frances Cabrini Parish in Allen Park, Michigan. He was born in 1940 in Detroit and was ordained a priest 1966.
In announcing the appointments, the archbishop, Cardinal Adam Maida, said the three men were chosen as veterans who had proven «their well-earned reputations as team players,» the Free Press reported.
The Archdiocese of Detroit has 1.46 million in a population of 4.4 million. It has 781 priests, 147 permanent deacons, and 2,341 religious.
