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U.S. Conference Elects Bishop Skylstad President
Cardinal George Selected for No. 2 Spot
WASHINGTON, D.C., NOV. 15, 2004 - The nation's Catholic bishops elected Bishop
William Skylstad of Spokane to a three-year term as president of the U.S.
episcopal conference.
Also today, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago was elected to a three-year term
as vice president.
Bishop Skylstad, 70, currently vice president of the conference, will succeed
Bishop Wilton Gregory of Belleville, Illinois, as president. The two bishops
have served in their respective posts since Nov. 13, 2001.
Bishop Skylstad was elected president on the first ballot at the prelates'
semiannual meeting here.
William Skylstad was born in Omak, in north-central Washington state. Earlier
this year, he recalled: "Our family lived in a very non-Catholic area. In almost
all of my years in grade school I had no Catholic classmates. In the seventh
grade, I felt a strong call in my heart to become a priest. Don't ask my why; no
one ever mentioned that possibility to me. ... Only in later years have I come
to appreciate the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives."
Skylstad attended the pontifical college Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio. He was
ordained to the priesthood May 21, 1960. After ordination he was assigned as a
teacher at the Spokane Diocese's high school seminary.
After his time as a seminary educator and administrator, he was named pastor of
a growing parish north of the City of Spokane. After six years, he was called to
pastor another parish for two years, and then was named chancellor of the
Spokane Diocese.
On May 12, 1977, he was ordained a bishop for the Diocese of Yakima, located in
Washington state, just west of the Spokane Diocese. He was appointed bishop of
Spokane on March 31, 1990.
Last week, Bishop Skylstad announced his diocese's plans to declare bankruptcy
at month's end, citing damages being sought in lawsuits over cases of clergy sex
abuse.
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