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Pope Benedict XVI has appointed a new bishop for the Diocese of Salina.
Monsignor Edward John Weisenburger, 51, has been serving as vicar general and rector of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathedral in the Oklahoma City Archdiocese. He replaces Bishop Paul Coakley, who had served as a priest in the Wichita diocese and was appointed archbishop of Oklahoma City in December 2010.
According to the Salina diocesan newspaper, Weisenburger was ordained to the priesthood on Dec. 19, 1987, at the cathedral in Oklahoma City. He was parochial vicar of St. Mary Church in Ponca City from 1987 to 1990, then studied church law at the University of St. Paul in Ottawa, Canada.
Upon his return to the Oklahoma City Archdiocese in 1992, he was appointed vice chancellor and adjutant judicial vicar. He also provided weekend parish and prison ministries from 1992 to 1995 and served as an on-site chaplain for rescue workers in the weeks following the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Weisenburger’s ordination and installation as bishop will be on May 1.
“I am very happy for my former diocese, but will miss him terribly in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City where he has served as Vicar General and Rector of Our Lady’s Cathedral,” Coakley wrote on his Facebook page early this morning.
