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No one is exempt from the two-year-old virus that still plagues our globe.
"I just tested positive," Barack Obama, 60, tweeted Sunday. A day later, Detroit's 73-year-old archbishop shares this news on two social media platforms:
The Most Rev. Vigneron has led the metropolitan Catholic church since January 2009, when he succeeded Cardinal Adam Maida.
The archbishop early this month on Ash Wednesday. (Photo: Archdiocese of Detroit)He was born in Mount Clemens and raised in Anchorville, a small community on Lake St. Clair that's also known as Anchor Bay. He attended high school and college at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, graduating in 1970. Two years after adding a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1973 from Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, he was ordained a priest Detroit.
The regional archdiocese has about 1.3 million Catholics in 218 parishes. The archbishop also is the figurehead for 86 schools, plus five colleges and seminaries.
