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Tyler, Texas, Oct 1, 2012 \/ 01:08 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- In a rare move, Pope Benedict XVI has named Monsignor Joseph E. Strickland, the vicar general of the Diocese of Tyler, as the next bishop of the same east Texas diocese he has served as a priest for over 25 years.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI know it\u2019s a tremendous task that I\u2019m given. But I\u2019m here with family,\u201d Bishop-designate Strickland told a Sept. 29 press conference in Tyler.<\/p>\n

\tHe thanked God for his \u201cwondrous blessings\u201d and thanked the Pope \u201cfor his expression of confidence.\u201d He also expressed his gratitude to his parents and his siblings, who were not present.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI thank God for my Catholic faith that I was baptized into as an infant,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\tPriests are not usually appointed bishops of the diocese in which they are presently ministering, the bishop-designate noted.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI do feel greatly blessed. It\u2019s a very real call from God to serve here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe press conference displayed the bishop-designate\u2019s sense of humor.<\/p>\n

\tHe joked that he parked in the previous bishop\u2019s parking space and said that the volume of congratulatory e-mails and text messages was so great that he needed a cooling system for his phone.<\/p>\n

\tBishop-designate Strickland, 53, was ordained a priest in 1985 for the Diocese of Dallas just before Pope John Paul II created the Diocese of Tyler from its territory in 1986. He has served as parochial vicar, diocesan vocations director, diocesan Scout chaplain, member of the diocesan tribunal and rector of Tyler\u2019s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.<\/p>\n

\tHe was named a monsignor in 1995 and became vicar general of the diocese in 2010, the U.S. bishops\u2019 conference reports.<\/p>\n

\tThe bishop-to-be was born Oct. 31, 1958 in Fredericksburg, Texas. He received his bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Dallas in 1981 and a master\u2019s degree in divinity from Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas. He has a licentiate in canon law from the Catholic University of America.<\/p>\n

\tBishop-designate Strickland succeeds Bishop Alvaro Corrada del Rio, S.J., who is now Bishop of Mayaguez in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

\tThe Diocese of Tyler has 54,746 Catholics out of a population of almost 1.4 million. Its territory covers 23,443 square miles.<\/p>\n

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