 Ending
10 months of anticipation and wonder, Bishop Edward Kmiec accepted
his crosier and took his seat at St. Joseph’s Cathedral as the 13th
bishop of Buffalo."We welcome
you officially, first of all as you now become a Buffalonian, you
now become a Western New Yorker, and we hope you become a Bills fan.
They need all the hope and prayers they can get," said Auxiliary
Bishop Edward M. Grosz in his welcoming address. "And of course, we
wish you all of God’s blessings as we, who are your family here in
the diocese, pledge to you our allegiance, our spirit of
cooperation. You have already touched our hearts in so many
beautiful ways, and so we say to you, may God so richly bless you."
Bishop Grosz, who had been
acting as diocesan administrator since May, added a special welcome
for the first bishop of Polish descent to helm the diocese. "Ad
multos annos, wszystkiego najlepszego, szczesc boze. Sto lat."
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