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by Barbara Stinson Lee
Intermountain Catholic
Return to special coverage of Bishop Wester's Installation
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The Catholic community of Salt Lake City is awaiting in excited anticipation the installation of their ninth bishop, Bishop John Charles Wester, former auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
 Slated for March 14 at 1:30 p.m., in the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, the installation ceremony will draw civic and religious leaders alike. Already slated to attend are the ordaining prelate Archbishop George Niederauer of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City; Archbishop Pietro Sambi, papal nuncio to the United States; Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.; Lieutenant Gov. Gary Herbert; three top officials of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including President Gordon B. Hinckley; the Right Reverend Carolyn Tanner Irish of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah; Salt Lake City Mayor Ross “Rocky” Anderson; Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon; Midvale Mayor JoAnn Seghini. Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles will attend with some 30 other bishops, most of them from the Western region of the United States.
On Tuesday, March 13, an evening of prayer will be held in anticipation of the installation at St. Ann Church in Salt Lake City. The prayer liturgy will be followed by a social at the parish and a dinner at the Salt Lake City Downtown Marriott Hotel. On March 14, the installation ceremony will be preceded by a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. at the Downtown Marriott Hotel. The installation Mass will begin at 1:30 p.m. A social will be held that evening at 6:30 p.m., followed by a dinner at 7:30 at the Downtown Marriott Hotel. All events will be by invitation only.
Bishop Wester follows a line of bishops that goes back to Bishop Lawrence Scanlan, who traveled the diocese on horseback and built the diocese’s mother church, the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. Also in that line was Bishop John J. Mitty, the third bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, who would become the fourth Archbishop of San Francisco.
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