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DETROIT (AP) - The Archdiocese of Detroit announced plans Wednesday to close or merge 16 parishes, most of them in or near the city, under a five-year reorganization plan.
Other small Roman Catholic congregations in Detroit and elsewhere will share pastors under the reorganization plan, which was brought on by decades of population shifts to outer suburbs and a nationwide shortage of priests.
Cardinal Adam Maida, leader of the nearly 1.3 million Catholics in the diocese's six-county area, said the decisions were part of a strategic planning process.
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