BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Bishop Edward Michael Egan of the Bridgeport dicese in Connecticut was named successor to the late Cardinal John O’Connor as archbishop of New York May 11. As archbishop, Egan will be heading the New York archdiocese, the nation’s third largest with 2.3 million Roman Catholics. O’Connor died May 3 after a long battle with brain cancer. O’Connor…
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