A Catholic leader in the D.C. area will undergo surgery next week to remove a cancerous growth.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, the eighth Archbishop of Washington, has been diagnosed with liposarcoma, and he will have the cancer surgically removed on Nov. 13, the Archdiocese of Washington said in an update on its website Wednesday .

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The statement said that the McElroy’s prognosis is good, as the cancer is nonaggressive and tends not to metastasize.

“I am at peace with this challenge and hope and believe that in God’s grace I will be Archbishop

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