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William Benedict Friend (born 22 October 1931) is the retired bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shreveport in Louisiana and its first bishop.He was ordained on 7 May 1959 as a priest of the Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham Alabama. On 31 August 1979 Pope John Paul II appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Alexandria-Shreveport and that same day was named bishop of the titular see of Pomaria. He was consecrated Titular Bishop of Pomaria on 30 October 1979.
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