A bishop of a Roman Catholic diocese in Ohio has been named to head the diocese of Joliet, officials said Tuesday.
Rev. R. Daniel Conlon will be the fifth bishop for the Joliet diocese, which includes 655,000 Catholics throughout seven counties in northeast Illinois, church officials said.
Conlon is expected to be installed on July 14 at the Cathedral
of St. Raymond Nonnatus in Joliet, according to a statement.
Conlon
succeeds Bishop J. Peter Sartain, who left the diocese when he was
installed as archbishop of Seattle in December. The day-to-day
operations of the diocese have been handled by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph
Siegel, the diocesan administrator.
Conlon,62, was born in
Cincinnati and is the oldest of six children. He completed a master of
divinity degree in 1975 at the Athenaeum of Ohio Mt. St. Mary's Seminary
of the West in Cincinnati and was ordained a priest on Jan. 15, 1977,
officials said.
He has served as associated pastor, pastor and
held top positions with the archdiocese of Cincinnati and earned a
doctor of canon law and doctor of philosophy at St. Paul University in
Ottawa, Ontario.
He was installed as bishop of Steubenville in 2002,
officials said.