BISHOP OF SWEDEN

O.M.I. succeeds O.S.B.
POPE JOHN has named 48-yearold Fr. John Taylor, 0.M.I., an American. Bishop of Stockholm and thus head of the Church in Sweden. He succeeds Danishborn Bishop Ansgar Nelson, 0.S.B., Bishop of Stockholm for the past five years, and who has now resigned.
Bishopselect Taylor, ordained in 1940, has been Superior of the Scandinavian mission of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate since 1958. As such he headed the first mission sent to the people of Greenland since the Middle Ages.
Fr. Taylor, who will be consecrated by Bishop Suhr, 0.S.B., of Copenhagen, on September 16. becomes bishop of a scant 28,000 Catholics in Sweden's total population of more than seven million. The Stockholm diocese includes the whole country.