Bishops

The Holy Father has named Msgr. Stephen Brislin as the new Bishop of Kroonstad, South Africa. Bishop-elect Brislin was born in that diocese in 1956 and ordained a priest there in 1983. He was named Vicar General in 1990 and has served as Diocesan Administrator since 2003.

The Holy Father has named the Most Rev. Leonardo Yuson Medroso, up to now Bishop of Borongan in the Philippines, as the new Bishop of Tagbilaran. Bishop Medroso was born in the Archdiocese of Palo in 1938 and ordained a priest there in 1963. He was named Bishop of Borongan in 1986.

The Holy Father has named Father Abdo Arbach, B.C., as Apostolic Exarch for the Greek-Melkite faithful residing in Argentina. He was born in Syria in 1952, ordained a priest in 1980 and has served in Argentina and Lebanon.

The Holy Father has named the Most Rev. William Kenney, C.P., up to now Auxiliary Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden, as Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England. Bishop Kenney was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1946, entered the Passionists in 1963, was ordained a priest in 1969, sent to Sweden in 1970 to study religious sociology. He remained in Sweden, pasturing a parish in Växjö and teaching at the University of Göteborg. He was named Auxiliary Bishop of Stockholm in 1987.