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   VATICAN CITY, 16 DEC 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Paul Stagg   
   Coakley of Salina, U.S.A., as metropolitan archbishop of Oklahoma City (area   
   109,997, population 2,555,000, Catholics 116,619, priests 146, permanent   
   deacons 92, religious 150), U.S.A. The archbishop-elect was born in Norfolk,   
   U.S.A. in 1955, he was ordained a priest in 1983 and consecrated a bishop in   
   2004. He succeeds Archbishop Eusebius Joseph Beltran, whose resignation from   
   the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having   
   reached the age limit.   
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