Another Catholic leader leaving Utah

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Utah Catholics are losing another leader.

The Rev. Carl Schlichte is leaving as pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Newman Center, the Intermountain Catholic reports, to take over a Bay Area parish in Northern California.

Schlichte first came to Utah two decades ago, the paper notes, and was named pastor at St. Catherine, near the University of Utah, in 2010.

The Dominican pastor now will head up St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Berkeley, according to the story, and Father Lukasz Misko will replace him at St. Catherine.

Schlichte's June 14 departure comes on the heels of Archbishop John C. Wester's exit.

Wester, leader of Utah's 300,000-plus Catholics for nearly nine years, is poised to take the reins at Santa Fe's Archdiocese next week in New Mexico.

The Salt Lake Tribune