BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Biloxi will have to wait a little longer for its new bishop.
Diocesan spokesman Terry Dixon announced Wednesday that Monsignor Louis Kihneman needs to have surgery to treat diverticulitis and must delay his planned Feb. 17 ordination.
Kihneman, now a priest of the Diocese of Corpus Christi in Texas, was announced as Biloxi’s fourth bishop in December. He would take over as leader of 58,000 Catholics in south Mississippi from Bishop Roger Morin, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 nearly a year ago.
Dixon says a new ordination date will be announced once Kihneman recovers from the colon condition.
Before the pope named him, Kihneman spent 39 years as a priest in Texas, rising to vicar general of the Corpus Christi diocese.
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