By Sara Higgins
Reporter
Midland Reporter-Telegram
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS - Legend has it when Pope John XXIII, whose birth name was Angelo Roncalli, searched for the headquarters of the new West Texas diocese in 1961, a town with his namesake caught his eye.
"That's where it's going to be," he said, pointing to the town of San Angelo. Today, that same diocese spans 37,433 square miles in 29 counties, and is a network of 73 missions and parishes that about 82,000 West Texans call their church homes.
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