Vatican
City, 11 April 2013
(VIS) – Today, the Holy Father appointed Fr. Burchell Alexander
McPherson as bishop of Montego Bay (area 3,878, population 640,000,
Catholics 10,000, priests 14, permanent deacons 13, religious 14),
Jamaica. The bishop-elect was born in Mavis Bank-St.Andrew, Jamaica
in 1951 and was ordained a priest in 1991. A convert to Catholicism
in 1976, since ordination he has served in several pastoral and
administrative roles, most recently as pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul
Parish and the St. Marin de Porres Mission in Kingston.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
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