Vatican City, Apr 10, 2008 / 05:36 am
Pope Benedict XVI has named five new bishops for the United States, the largest number of prelates named in a single instance by a Pope during the last 10 years. The new bishops are Bishop Richard Edmund Pates of Des Moines, Bishop Anthony Basil Taylor of Little Rock, Auxiliary Bishop James Douglas Conley of Denver, Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Cantu of San Antonio and Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice of San Francisco.
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The new bishop of Des Moines has up to now been Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Bishop Richard Edmund Pates was born on February 12, 1943 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. After his elementary studies at St. Paul’s Catholic School, he entered the Nazareth Hall minor seminary and later studied theology at the Saint Paul Seminary.