12-02-2018 03:46 via edmontonjournal.com

Community mourns former Edmonton archbishop Joseph MacNeil

A former Edmonton archbishop who was instrumental in organizing the first and only papal visit to the Alberta capital has died.
Joseph MacNeil, archbishop emeritus of Edmonton, died in Grey Nuns Hospital Sunday after suffering a stroke. He was 93. 
“He was always so filled with joy,” Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton spokeswoman Lorraine Turchansky said in a telephone interview Sunday evening. 
Archbishop Joseph MacNeil, left, accompanies Pope John Paul II at Namao Airport o
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