Pope Francis appoints Pennsylvania priest to lead Diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan

Bishop-elect Lohse has been vicar general and moderator of the curia for the Diocese of Erie since 2017. During his 34 years as a Catholic priest, he has been a parish priest, high school chaplain, vocations director, chancellor, official in the Vatican’s Dicastery for Clergy, director of the child protection office, and an adjunct faculty member at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. Lohse, the sixth of a family of seven children, grew up in Pennsylvania. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, he entered the seminary....