UPDATE: Pope Francis appoints Vatican diplomat to be auxiliary bishop of Detroit

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Paul F. Russell, currently apostolic nuncio to Turkey and Turkmenistan, to be an auxiliary bishop of Detroit.

A native of Massachusetts who was raised in Michigan, he was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston in 1987 and entered the diplomatic service of the Vatican in 1997.

After several assignments to the apostolic nunciatures in a number of countries, including in Africa, he was named charge d'affaires in Taiwan in 2008 by P

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