On July 3, Pope Benedict appointed Msgr. Jefferey M. Monforton, a priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit, as the new Bishop of Steubenville, Ohio.
The former rector of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit will fill over a year long vacancy left by Bishop Daniel R. Colon, who was assigned as Bishop of Joliet, Ill. in May 2011.
The Diocese of Steubenville is home to nearly 40,000 Catholics in Southeastern Ohio as well as Franciscan University, the school that recently dropped its student health coverage rather than comply with the federal contaception mandate.
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