New Vice President: Cardinal DiNardo

This story appears in the Fall bishops' meeting 2013 feature series. View the full series.

by Michael Sean Winters

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On the third ballot, a run-off between the two top vote getters on the second ballot, Houston-Galveston Cardinal Daniel DiNardo was elected the Vice President of the USCCB. DiNardo received 147 votes to Archbishop Charles Chaput's  87 votes. +DiNardo was slated to assume th chairmanship of the Divine Worship Committee, and now the conference will need to create a new slate of nominees for that post. 

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