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Portland, Ore., Jan 29, 2013 \/ 10:35 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Alexander K. Sample of Marquette, Mich., to shepherd the archdiocese of Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n

\tIn a Jan. 29 statement, Archbishop-designate Sample noted his \u201cexcitement and joy at taking up this new challenge that God has placed before me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI have always tried to be obedient to the will of God and to accept whatever the Church asks of me to be God\u2019s will,\u201d he said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt is in this spirit that I have said 'yes' to the Holy Father\u2019s request for me to serve the Church in a new place in western Oregon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHowever, he said he is leaving the Catholic Church in Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula \u201cwith a certain heaviness of heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI will profoundly miss the people, the clergy and religious of the diocese. I will miss my brother priests in a special way, since I was chosen from among them to be their bishop.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe 52-year-old archbishop-designate will succeed Archbishop John G. Vlazny, who submitted his resignation last year when he reached the canonical age limit of 75.<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop-designate Sample has been Bishop of Marquette since 2006. He was 45 at the time of his ordination and was the youngest U.S. bishop at the time.<\/p>\n

\tHe serves on U.S. bishops\u2019 conference subcommittees on Native American Catholics and on the catechism. He is vice-postulator for the canonization cause of Venerable Frederic Baraga, the Diocese of Marquette\u2019s first bishop.<\/p>\n

\tThe archbishop-designate was born in Kalispell, Montana in 1960. He earned bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in metallurgical engineering before completing philosophy studies at the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. in 1986, the Diocese of Marquette reports. He studied for the priesthood at the Pontifical College Josephinum Seminary in Ohio and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Marquette on June 1, 1990 by Bishop Mark F. Schmitt.<\/p>\n

\tThere are more than 415,000 Catholics in the western Oregon archdiocese, where they make up 12 percent of the archdiocese\u2019s total population. There are 150 diocesan priests, almost 400 women religious, 78 brothers and 79 permanent archdeacons.<\/p>\n

\tThe archdiocese has 124 parishes, 22 missions, 40 Catholic elementary schools, 10 Catholic high schools, two Catholic colleges and universities and 10 Catholic hospitals.<\/p>\n

\tThe archdiocese is the second oldest in the U.S. after Baltimore. Its present territory is almost 30,000 square miles and reaches the state borders of Washington and California.<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop-designate Sample will serve as administrator of the Diocese of Marquette until he is installed as archbishop in Portland.<\/p>\n

\tBud Bunce, the Archdiocese of Portland's director of communications, told CNA that Archbishop-designate Sample's installation will take place on April 2. The time and venue are still to be determined.<\/p>\n

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