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   VATICAN CITY, 16 SEP 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop James Peter   
   Sartain of Joliet in Illinois, U.S.A., as metropolitan archbishop of Seattle   
   (area 64,269, population 5,141,000, Catholics 964,000, priests 313, permanent   
   deacons 104, religious 551), U.S.A. The archbishop-elect was born in Memphis,   
   U.S.A. in 1952, he was ordained a priest in 1978 and consecrated a bishop in   
   2000. He succeeds Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett, whose resignation from the   
   pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having   
   reached the age limit.   
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