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William Charles Skurla (born June 1, 1956, in
Duluth, Minnesota , settlement_type = City , nicknames = Twin Ports (with Superior), Zenith City , motto = , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top: urban Duluth skyline; Minnesota ...
, United States) is the
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of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church and the Metropolitan Archeparch or Archbishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh. He succeeded Archbishop Basil Myron Schott, who died in August 2010 of lymphoma. Skurla was appointed on January 19, 2012, by
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as metropolitan, and enthroned in a
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at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in
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, on April 18, 2012.


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Catholic Church in the United States With 23 percent of the United States' population , the Catholic Church is the country's second largest religious grouping, after Protestantism, and the country's largest single church or Christian denomination where Protestantism is divided i ...
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Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States This is a historical list of all bishops of the Catholic Church whose sees were within the present-day boundaries of the United States, with links to the bishops who consecrated them. It includes only members of the United States Conference of Cat ...
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List of Catholic bishops in the United States The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, including its five inhabited territories. The U.S. Catholic Church comprises: * 176 Latin Church dioceses led by bishops * 18 Eastern Catholic eparchies led by e ...


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His Eminence Most Reverend William C. Skurla, D.D. - The Carpathian Connection
* ttp://eparchyofpassaic.com/bishop.htm William C. Skurla, Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaicbr>2008 Enthronement (Passaic)
1956 births Metropolitan bishops American Eastern Catholic bishops People from Duluth, Minnesota Ruthenian Catholic bishops 21st-century Eastern Catholic bishops Living people Members of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches 21st-century American clergy {{US-EC-bishop-stub