New Bishop Vows To Listen As He Forms Vision For Springfield Diocese

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published August 12, 2014 at 12:50 PM EDT

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Mitchell Thomas Rozanski will be installed this afternoon as the 9^th bishop of the Springfield Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. The diocese encompasses the four counties of western Massachusetts with 82 parishes and 220,000 members. Rozanski, who is 56 years old, is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. He spoke with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill on the eve of the installation.

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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.

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