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BREAKING – Reports: Bishop Cupich to be next archbishop of Chicago

By: Tracy Simmons

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September 19, 2014

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Bishop Blase Cupich

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By Tracy Simmons
Updated: Saturday, 9:00 a.m

Bishop Blase Cupich of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane/Tracy Simmons

The Vatican has confirmed that Bishop Blase Cupich will be installed as the archbishop Chicago on Nov. 18.

At a press conference in Chicago this morning it was announced that he will succeed the conservative Cardinal Francis George, who has been battling bladder cancer.

Cupich, who has been labeled a ‘moderate,’ said at the conference — in Spanish — that he will focus on immigrant families.

He has been pushing for immigration reform and his views on social justice and working with the marginalized align with the pontiff’s.

Cupich, originally from Nebraska, came to Spokane in 2010 from Rapid City, Iowa.

Representatives from the Catholic Diocese of Spokane was not available for comment.

Cupich has led the Spokane Diocese since 2010.

SpokaneFAVS will continue reporting on this breaking story.

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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