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Posted on December 20, 2022 in: Vocations

Clergy Appointments

December 20, 2022

The Most Reverend Michael R. Cote, D. D., Bishop of Norwich, has made the following clergy and diocesan appointment in the Diocese of Norwich

Reverend Kevin Reilly, Diocesan Director of Vocations,

while continuing as Pastor of Saint Patrick Church, Mystic.

Effective: December 20, 2022.

Reverend Peter J. Langevin, Chancellor

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