Seattle, Wash., Apr 12, 2011 / 14:58 pm
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph J. Tyson of Seattle will succeed Bishop Carlos Sevilla of Yakima, Pope Benedict XVI has decided.
“We will miss him, of course,” Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle said April 12. The selection of Bishop Tyson “speaks of the quality and pastoral skills of our priests here in the Archdiocese of Seattle.”
Bishop Sevilla submitted his resignation in August 2010 upon reaching the age of 75. Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, announced his successor’s appointment in Washington, D.C. on April 12.
Bishop Tyson, 53, was born in the Diocese of Yakima at Moses Lake, Washington on Oct. 16, 1957. He was baptized at Yakima’s St. Paul Cathedral. After he and his family moved to Seattle, he often returned to visit his grandparents.