Bishop Christopher Coyne, a Boston native currently serving as auxiliary of Indianapolis, will return to New England to become the 10th bishop of Burlington, Vermont and head of the state’s 125,000-member Church, according to a report by Rocco Palmo on Whispers in the Loggia.
“Confirmed by two Whispers ops, the move fittingly places the US church’s most digitally-engaged prelate in a charge with a booming tech economy – and the young adults who come with it – but likewise drops him into a church still reeling from the fallout of a $20 million sex-abuse settlement, preceded by a painful drip of revelations and a fraught legal strategy on the scandals’ response,” Palmo wrote.
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