Archbishop Coakley of Oklahoma City elected president of USCCB

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City has been elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, with Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville chosen as vice president, following a closely contested vote at the plenary assembly in Baltimore

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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has elected Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City as its next president and Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, as vice president, following a vote at the bishops’ plenary assembly in Baltimore this week.

Archbishop Coakley was elected president on the third ballot after receiving 128 votes to Bishop Flores’s 109 in a run-off. Bishop Flores was then chosen as vice president on the first ballot from the remaining nine candidates.

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