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Corpus Christi Pastor Moving to Yorba Linda Church

Aliso Viejo parish will find out who replaces Fr. Fred Bailey this week.

Fr. Fred K. Bailey, the founding pastor of in Aliso Viejo, will transfer to Santa Clara de Asis church in Yorba Linda, effective July 1.

is part of a periodic shuffle of priests and pastors in the Diocese of Orange.

His replacement at Corpus Christi will be named later this week, he told parishioners at weekend Masses.

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Bailey's new parish is about one-quarter the size of Corpus Christi, which has 2,300 registered families. Corpus Christi was spun off from in Laguna Niguel in 1998.

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