Msgr. Martin T. Laughlin has been elected as the administrator of the Diocese of Charleston. With the installation of the Most Rev. Robert J. Baker as Bishop of Birmingham, Ala., the Diocese of Charleston became vacant.
The College of Consultors then were required to convene according to canon law and elect a diocesan administrator who must be a priest, said Msgr. Thomas X. Hofmann, adjutant judicial vicar. He holds the course steady until the new bishop comes, he said. The College of Consultors met Oct. 3 and elected Msgr. Laughlin, pastor of St. Gregory the Great Church in Bluffton.
I ask the diocese to pray for the appointment of a new bishop, Msgr. Laughlin told The Miscellany.