New bishops and a new Archdiocese

The Holy Father today named José Horacio Gomez,
auxiliary bishop of Denver, as the new bishop of San
Antonio, Texas, having accepted the retirement of the
current bishop Patrick F. Flores.

The Holy Father today named Jerome E. Listecki,
auxiliary bishop of Chicago, the new bishop of La
Crosse, Wisconsin.

The Holy Father today named Robert James Carlson,
bishop of Sioux Falls, as the new bishop of Saginaw,
Michigan.

The Holy Father today also made the Diocese of
Galveston-Houston the archdiocese of a new
ecclesiastical province encompassing the Texas
Dioceses of Austin, Beaumont, Brownsville, Corpus
Christi, Tyler and Victoria and raising
Galveston-Houston's current bishop and coadjutor,
Joseph Anthony Fiorenza and Daniel Nicholas DiNardo,
to the level of Archbishop.