Pope Appoints Oklahoma City Vicar General Bishop Of Salina

USCCB ^ | February 6, 2012

[NYer]

WASHINGTON—Pope Benedict XVI named Msgr. Edward Weisenburger, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, bishop of Salina, Kansas. Bishop-elect Weisenburger, 51, succeeds Archbishop Paul Stagg Coakley, who was appointed archbishop of Oklahoma City on December 16, 2010.

The appointment was publicized in Washington, February 6, by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Edward John Weisenburger was born December 23, 1960, in Alton, Illinois and attended Edison Institute and Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Oklahoma. He graduated from Conception Seminary College in Missouri, American College Leuven in Belgium, and St. Paul University Seminar in Ottawa, Canada, where he received a licentiate in Canon Law. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City on December 19, 1987.

Following ordination, he served as assistant pastor at St. Mary Parish in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and St. Peter Church in Woodward, Oklahoma. From 1990-1996, he served as officialis of the archdiocesan tribunal. From 1995-2002, he served as pastor of Holy Trinity Parish in Okarche, Oklahoma. From 2002-present, he served as rector of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Oklahoma City. He has served as vicar general of the archdiocese since 1996. He also served on the archdiocesan seminary board, the presbyteral council and the college of consultors. In 2009, he was named a prelate of honor to His Holiness with the title of monsignor.

The Diocese of Salina comprises 26,685 square miles in the State of Kansas. It has a total population of 315,983, with 45,103, or 14 percent, of them Catholic.

[NYer]

From WITL blogspot

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Resolving the Stateside bench's longest-standing vacancy, at Roman Noon today the Pope named Msgr Edward Weisenburger, 51, vicar-general of Oklahoma City and rector of its Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, as bishop of Salina.

In the 50,000-member diocese that comprises Northwest Kansas, the bishop-elect succeeds his boss until today, now Archbishop Paul Coakley, who was promoted to Sooner Country in December 2010.

Born in western Illinois and transplanted to Oklahoma as a boy, Weisenburger studied at Missouri's Conception Seminary College and the recently-closed American College Louvain before his ordination in 1987. After returning from advanced studies in canon law at Ottawa's University of St Paul, he was named vice-chancellor of the archdiocese and, in the wake of the 1995 bombing of the city's Murrah Federal Building, served as an on-site chaplain for relief workers and the families of the lost and injured. A year later, the now retired Archbishop Eusebius Beltran tapped Weisenburger to serve as his vicar-general.

Following a nearly four-decade drought of Oklahomans named to the episcopacy, the Salina appointee is the second Sooner to become a bishop in recent years, following Little Rock's Bishop Anthony Taylor, a longtime OKC pastor who was tapped for the Arkansas post in April 2008.

In keeping with the norms of the canons, the bishop-elect must be ordained and installed in his new charge within four months of this morning's appointment. This August, the Salina church -- originally founded at Concordia -- marks the 125th anniversary of its establishment.

With today's move, eight Stateside Latin-church sees -- including, for the first time in 20 years, a trio of archdioceses -- remain vacant, and an additional eight are led by (arch)bishops serving past the retirement age of 75.

PHOTO: The (Salina) Register

[MindBender26]

Question from a heathen protestant: What is a Vicar General?

[MindBender26]

Question from a heathen protestant: What is a Vicar General?

[ArrogantBustard]

The Vicar General ranks between a Major General and a Lieutenant General.

[ArrogantBustard]

OK, since you asked twice:

The Vicar General of a diocese is the Bishop’s assistant; a “second in command”, or “executive officer” for handling the business of the diocese.

[ArrogantBustard]

Is he the very model of a modern Vicar General?

[jobim]

So: Does he have any notches on his belt? Has he been involved in any gunslinging for Holy Mother Church? Does he have any record of going after outlaws?

If not, he is of no use to we Catholics in the war against Reformed Missionary Secularism House of Praise of the Latter Day Wiccans

[Salvation]

Isn’t a Vicar General also in change, more or less, of all the priests?

Would he call a presbyteral council of a diocese to order and introduce the Bishop — not that the bishop would need to be introduced.