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DATE: MONDAY, May 14, 1990                   TAG: 9005140058
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

STALLINGS ORDAINED AS CHURCH BISHOP

The Rev. George Stallings, the Catholic priest who broke away from Rome to start his own African-American Catholic Church has been ordained as the congregation's first bishop.

Stallings, who cut his Vatican ties in June 1989 and began his own Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation, was ordained by the Rev. Richard W. Bridges, archbishop and president of the Independent Old Catholic Churches of California.

Bridges' church split from the Roman Catholic Church during the 1870s over a dispute of papal infallibility.

- Associated Press 


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