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Show I! BISHOP DENIES ; REPORTED CHANGE Denver. Colo.. April 17. Information Informa-tion reached this city tonight that at i the request of Bishop Lawrence Scan- lan of the diocese of Salt Lake a coaJ- Jutor or auxiliary bishop would be ap pointed to assist him. U was said that the names of three priests had been sent to Rome as candidates for the position. po-sition. The list was said to have been headed by Father Yorke of San Francisco Fran-cisco and to have contained also the name o' Father Lugh L. McMenamin, pastor of the Immaculate Conception cathedral of this city. When questioned tonight Father McMenamin Mc-Menamin said that he had heard the report that a coadjutor bishop was to be appointed for tho diocese of Salt l,ake and ho added that ho had leard "vague rumors" that his name was on the list of three. Asked if the names had already been sent to the Vatican Father McMenamin replied: "As to that I cannot say. They probably have been." Salt Lake, April IS. When the information in-formation contained in the dispatch was communicated to Bishop ScanJan last night he said, "I deny absolutely that I have askod for a coadjutor blBhop." Father Ryan was emphatic in his denial of the Denver report and expressed ex-pressed the opinion that Fathor McMenamin Mc-Menamin had been misunderstood. A dispatch received from San Francisco Fran-cisco quoted Father Yorke as saying that he knew nothing of the proposed changes in the diocese of Salt Lake. |