Pope names coadjutor bishop for Vancouver

By JEFF GRAHAM

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed a coadjutor bishop for the Archdiocese of Vancouver, The B.C. Catholic learned as it was going to press.

Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB

Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, currently Secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education in Rome, has been named coadjutor archbishop for the archdiocese, assisting Archbishop Raymond Roussin, SM, who continues as the Archbishop of Vancouver.

As distinguished from an auxiliary bishop, a coadjutor bishop has the right of succession upon the death or retirement of a diocesan bishop.

Born in Ottawa on July 9, 1946, Archbishop Miller joined the Basilian congregation in 1966 and was ordained to the priesthood by Pope Paul VI in 1975. He was appointed titular Archbishop of Vertara and Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education in 2003 by Pope John Paul II.

He is also vice-president of the Pontifical Work of Priestly Vocations, a member of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses and the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, and a consultor to the Congregation for Bishops.

In another appointment announced at press time, Father Kenneth Nowakowski, rector of Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Ottawa, has been named by the Pope Eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster.

Eparch Severian Yakymyshyn was ordained eparch in 1995. He turned 75, the age at which bishops must offer their resignation, in 2005.

See next week's B.C. Catholic for further coverage, as well as the Archdiocese of Vancouver's web site, www.rcav.org.