Vatican envoy, R.I. native, to be bishop of Vermont

By Wilson Ring, Associated Press | March 4, 2005

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- A longtime Rhode Island priest who has worked the last four years at the Vatican envoy's office in Washington has been selected by Pope John Paul II to be the new Roman Catholic bishop of Burlington.

Monsignor Salvatore R. Matano, 58, will serve as coadjutor, or assistant, bishop to the incumbent, Bishop Kenneth A. Angell, and then take over the Burlington Diocese, which includes all of Vermont, when Angell retires, scheduled for Aug. 3, his 75th birthday.

''There are many challenges today which face the community of believers in the Catholic Church," Matano said at a Burlington news conference with Angell, adding that ''the bishop is looked to for guidance."

Angell has served as bishop of Vermont's 148,000 Roman Catholics since 1992, when he also came from a high-ranking post in the Rhode Island diocese.
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