Announced today on the Vatican News Service
VATICAN CITY, 20 MAY 2008 (VIS) – The Holy Father appointed:
Fr. Neil Tiedemann C.P., provincial consultor of the Passionist Fathers, as bishop of Mandeville (area 3,282, population 582,000, Catholics 8,800, priests 43, religious 34), Jamaica. The bishop-elect was born in New York in 1948 and ordained a priest in 1975.
