sentences:  His most recent assignment before coming to St. Petersburg was in Southwest Ranches, located in Broward County, FL, where then Monsignor Lynch served for about six months as the second pastor of St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church.On December 5, 1995, Pope John Paul II appointed Lynch the fourth Bishop of St. Petersburg to fill the vacancy left when John Favalora was named Archbishop of Miami a year prior.Lynch was consecrated and installed as Bishop on January 26, 1996.