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Former Seattle Archbishop dies at 96

SEATTLE — Retired Seattle Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen, whose outspoken support for nuclear disarmament, gay rights and an expanded role for women in the church made him one of the most controversial U.S. bishops, has died at 96. Hunthausen died Sunday at his home in Helena, Mont., the Seattle Archdiocese said. Hunthausen, who was born in Montana, served as the bishop of Helena from 1962 to 1975 and as archbishop of Seattle from 1975 to 1991. Hunthausen was the last living American bishop to have participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council, called by the pope in the early 1960s to modernize the church, the archdiocese said. “He was someone who through his example, a lot of people really saw that there was a place in the church for them,” his nephew, Denny Hunthausen, told The Seattle Times on Monday.

 

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