Pope Francis names Bishop Coyne as new coadjutor archbishop of Hartford
Vatican City, Jun 26, 2023 / 04:40 am (CNA).
Pope Francis appointed Bishop Christopher Coyne as a coadjutor archbishop of Hartford on Monday.
As coadjutor, Coyne will assist Archbishop Leonard Blair in the administration of the Hartford archdiocese and should succeed him as archbishop upon his retirement, expected once Blair turns 75 next year.
Coyne has led the Diocese of Burlington, Vermont since 2015. The 65-year-old bishop previously served as the auxiliary bishop of Indianapolis from 2011 to 2015.
As bishop of Burlington, Coyne removed an unvaccinated pastor from his parish in 2022 for refusing to wear a face mask and be regularly tested for COVID-19, spoke out against a state bill that threatened the seal of the confessional, and formed a lay review committee to investigate personnel files relating to sexual abuse of minors by priests in 2018.
Originally from Woburn, Massachusetts, Coyne worked as a bartender for two years before entering seminary. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Boston at the age of 27. After ordination, he studied in Rome at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, where he earned a doctorate in sacred liturgy in 1994. He became the director of the archdiocese’s Office of Worship in 2000.
Cardinal Bernard Law appointed Coyne as a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Boston in 2002, a role he held for three years at the height of the archdiocese’s sex abuse scandal.
He later served as the chairman of communications for the U.S. bishops’ conference from 2015 to 2018 and as a member of the U.S. bishops’ Evangelization and Catechesis Committee and the Committee on Divine Worship.
Next year, Coyne is expected to succeed Blair, who led the Archdiocese of Hartford for the past ten years. Before coming to Connecticut, Blair served as the bishop of Toledo from 2003 to 2013 and as an auxiliary bishop of Detroit from 1999 to 2003.
Blair initiated a pastoral plan in 2016 to revitalize the Archdiocese of Hartford, which combined neighboring churches into a single parish, reducing the number of parishes from 213 to 127. He also called for an archdiocesan synod in 2018.
The Archdiocese of Hartford includes the counties of New Haven and Litchfield and has nearly 470,000 Catholics. Pope Gregory XVI established Hartford as a diocese in 1843.
Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254655/pope-francis-names-bishop-coyne-new-coadjutor-archbishop-of-hartford
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In the venue of Bishop Coyne we apparently have the sacerdotal equivalent to the late Albert J. Dunlap, the tough executive known as Chainsaw Al. ‘Chainsaw Al’ (from the wiki) in the 1990s, when he ran Scott Paper, laid off 11,200 workers; it was just one measure he took that brought him financial rewards of $100 million in salary, stock profits and other compensation after engineering the company’s sale to Kimberly-Clark in 1995. He was soon hired by Sunbeam Corporation, an appliance maker, and within a month anticipation on Wall Street about Mr. Dunlap’s plans to overhaul the company sent its shares soaring by 73 percent. He did not disappoint the traders: He promptly announced that he would halve Sunbeam’s work force of 12,000 people; close or sell most of its plants and other facilities; and pare its number of product lines. Similarly Bishop Christopher Coyne as a coadjutor archbishop of Hartford’, is a demonstrated ‘man of action’ with his pastoral plan in 2016 to revitalize the Archdiocese of Hartford, ‘which combined neighboring churches into a single parish, reducing the number of parishes from 213 to 127′ (as per CNA). Bishop + Coyne has also demonstrated inflexible authority by firing (my own chosen word) a priest who trusted the God’s given immunity to himself and to his parishioners, while the human ‘authority’ suggested mask, confinement and jabs. Clearly in the venue of Bishop + Coyne the former bartender, the new-church has a promising…
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.. Clearly in the venue of Bishop + Coyne the former bartender, the new-church has a promising dynamic executive who will assuredly bring some changes to the See of Archbishop Leonard Blair. By the way: why on earth does Archbishop Leonard Blair retire at such a young age of 75? The disheartening forcing out of retirement of the members of the senior members of the prelature has a modernistic and nonreligious reason: It is since the decree of Antipope “Saint” Paul VI in order to facilitate the incoming of the ‘movers & shakers’ which are potentially favorable to the revolutionary imprudences of a counter-church, which is just what the Roman Catholic Church has always needed: to cut the nerves and muscles under the pretense of ‘cutting the fat’.