SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A retired San Francisco archbishop who helped lead a contentious and successful 2008 California ballot measure to ban gay marriage has died. He was 80. Archbishop George H.

San Francisco, San Mateo and part of Santa Clara counties. The 157-year-old diocese has never had anyone but a straight, white male as its bishop, a pattern that Andrus will continue in the ...

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of Oakland as the new Archbishop of San Francisco, the Vatican announced today. The 56 year-old San Diego-native replaces Archbishop ...