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News Advisory & Media Credentials If you are interested in covering the Installation Mass on Feb. 2, 2010, please fill out the Credentials Application form. We anticipate a large crowd at the Basilica for the Mass and this will help us coordinate our efforts to ensure that all interested media get to cover the event. Note to broadcast media: If you are interested in broadcasting the Mass live please contact me as soon as possible so that I may try to accommodate your request. We have already received several requests and we need to work out the logistics. Installation Mass Scheduled for New Bishop SAN JUAN, TX -- Bishop Daniel E. Flores will be installed as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Brownsville at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2 at the Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle - National Shrine. Daniel Cardinal DiNardo will preside over the installation Mass and papal nuncio Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, will read the official decree of the Holy Father announcing the appointment. More than 40 bishops from the United States and Mexico are also expected to be in attendance. On the eve of the installation, Monday, Feb. 1 Bishop Flores will pray the Solemn Vespers at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral with priests, religious and deacons of the diocese. Pope Benedict appointed Bishop Flores as the new shepherd of the diocese on Dec. 9, 2009. Bishop Flores who has been an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit since 2006, replaces Bishop Raymundo J. Peña who is at the mandatory retirement age of 75.
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