Steubenville's Monforton appointed Detroit auxiliary

Monforton has been the subject of two Vatican investigations, and faced a stalled diocesan merger

Editor’s Note: This story was updated Friday, Sept. 29, to include a statement from the Archdiocese of Detroit.

Steubenville’s Bishop Jeffrey Monforton was appointed an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Detroit Thursday, less than one year after the bishop announced an eventually stalled merger between the Steubenville diocese and its neighboring Di…