Alyssa Campanella was crowned Miss USA by her predecessor, who converted to what religion in 2016?
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Miss USA 2011 Miss USA 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss USA pageant, was held on the Las Vegas Strip at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Paradise, Nevada on Sunday, June 19, 2011. Rima Fakih of Michigan crowned her successor, Alyssa Campanella of California, at the end of this event. She represented the United States at the Miss Universe 2011 pageant in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. For the first time ever, one of the sixteen semifinalists was selected exclusively by fans via online voting and SMS messaging. Due to this, the competition formats were changed to reality series style group eliminations, Top 16, Top 8 and Top 4.
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Rima Fakih Rima Fakih (Arabic: ريما فقيه‎ ‎ ) (born September 22, 1985) is a Lebanese-American actress, model, professional wrestler and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 2010. She represented the state of Michigan in the national pageant, having previously won the 2010 Miss Michigan USA pageant. In 2016, Fakih converted to Christianity from Shia Islam, and married Lebanese-Canadian music producer Wassim Slaiby known as Tony Sal.
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Daniel G. P. Gutierrez Daniel George Policarpo Gutierrez (born 1964) is an Episcopal priest who became the 16th bishop to lead the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, the second oldest and fourth largest in the country. Bishop Gutierrez was consecrated as the diocese's 16th bishop on July 16, 2016 by Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry; his former bishop The Rt. Rev. Michael Vono delivered the sermon. Bishop Gutierrez vowed to visit each of the 132 congregations in his diocese within six months, and began blogging his pilgrimage of faith.
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Grace Poe Mary Grace Poe Llamanzares ( , baptized September 3, 1968) is
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa (Latin: "Dioecesis Tulsensis" ) is a particular church of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in the Ecclesiastical province of Oklahoma City covering the eastern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its ecclesiastical territory includes all of 31 counties in eastern Oklahoma, including the most populous county of the group, Tulsa County. The resignation of Bishop Edward James Slattery was accepted on May 13, 2016, and David Konderla named his successor.
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Miss USA 1996 At the conclusion of the final competition, Ali Landry of Louisiana was crowned by outgoing titleholder Shanna Moakler of New York.
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Suhaib Webb Suhaib Webb is an American Muslim Imam who converted from Christianity to Islam in 1992. He has previously been the imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC).
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Lizzi Jackson Elisabeth Gabrielle "Lizzi" Jackson (born September 20, 1991) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Bellingham, Washington, who was crowned Miss Washington 2015. She competed for the Miss America 2016 title in September 2015.
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Catholic Church in the United States The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome. With 77.4 million members, it is the largest religious denomination in the United States, comprising 22% of the population as of 2017. The United States has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world after Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines, the largest Catholic minority population, and the largest English-speaking Catholic population. The central leadership body of the Catholic Church in the United States is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Katie Millar Katie Millar (married name Millar-Wirig) (born September 3, 1986) was Miss Utah in 2006 and a top ten finisher in the Miss America 2007 Contest. She received positive press from Christian media outlets for choosing to wear a one-piece swimsuit during the bikini contest.
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James F. Checchio James Francis Checchio (born on April 21, 1966 in Camden, New Jersey) is an American Roman Catholic prelate. Bishop Checchio served as rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome from 2005 until 2016. On March 8, 2016, Pope Francis named him Bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen to succeed Bishop Paul Bootkoski. He was ordained and installed as Bishop of Metuchen on May 3, 2016.
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Miss Bangladesh USA Miss Bangladesh US (Formerly known as Miss Bangladesh USA) is a Beauty pageant in United States for Bangladeshi Americans. It is the national pageant that elects the Bangladesh representative to Miss Asia Pacific International and Miss Earth. Miss Bangladesh USA is emerged as the first pageant for Bangladeshi women in almost two decades and is the first organization to be sending a Bangladeshi representative to Miss Asia Pacific International and Miss Earth. The current titleholder for Miss Bangladesh US is Marjana Chowdhury of New York.
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Stephen McNallen Stephen Anthony McNallen (born October 15, 1948) is an American proponent of the modern Pagan new religious movement of Heathenry. He founded the Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA), which he led from 1994 until 2016, having previously been the founder of the Viking Brotherhood and the Asatrú Free Assembly.
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Gregory Kelly John Gregory Kelly (born February 15, 1956) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church serving as an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Dallas, Texas since 2016.
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Stephanie Murray Smith Stephanie Murray Smith Waltrip (born August 1987) is a beauty pageant titleholder from the United States who was crowned Miss South Carolina USA and placed in the Top 10 at Miss USA. In 2010, she competed on "The Amazing Race 17" with then boyfriend Chad Waltrip and finished fifth. He proposed to her while on the Race. They were married later in 2010 after the Race.
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Jennifer Chu Jennifer Chu (born July 4, 1988) is a Korean American beauty pageant queen. She was crowned Miss Asia USA in 2005, and crowned her successor, Jennifer Pham, the following year. At the time she was crowned, she resided in both Calabasas, California and Santa Barbara, California. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was declared as a Psychology major.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA officially came into existence on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. s of 2016 , it has approximately 3.6 million baptized members in just over 9,200 congregations. In 2015, Pew Research estimated that 2.1% of the U.S population self-identifies with the ELCA and mainline Lutheranism. It is the seventh-largest religious body and the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. The next two largest Lutheran denominations are the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) (with approximately 2.1 million members) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) (with approximately 370,000 members). There are also many in the United States, some of which came into being composed of dissidents following the major 1988 merger. The ELCA belongs to the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation. The ELCA is in full communion with the Episcopal Church, Moravian Church, Presbyterian Church (USA), Reformed Church in America, United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church.
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Lee Soo-jung Crystal Yi, better known as Lee Soo-jung and Chai (born in 1993) is an American singer of Korean descent who is currently signed under Antenna Music. She was the winner of SBS's K-pop Star 5 in 2016.
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Edward James Slattery Edward James Slattery (born August 11, 1940) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of Tulsa from 1993 to 2016.
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Progressive Reconstructionism Progressive Reconstructionism is a loosely-knit interfaith community found principally at this time in the developed world. It comprises activist adherents of Reconstructionist Judaism (and of some other Jewish Traditions) and the Christian left, of progressive Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims, and of left-leaning Neopagans, Wiccans, and members of other faiths, as well as of progressives who follow a spiritual practice but adhere to no particular religion or Tradition, considering themselves to be "spiritual but not religious" (among these are included even agnostics, non-theists, and secular humanists). Some of the key current proponents are Rabbi Michael Lerner, Starhawk, and Rev. Fr. Matthew Fox.
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Mark P. Shea Mark P. Shea is an American author, blogger, and speaker working in the field of Roman Catholic apologetics. Born and raised in Everett, Washington, he describes himself as a "double-jump convert[,] raised more or less as an agnostic pagan, [who] became a non-denominational Evangelical in 1979, and entered the Catholic Church in 1987". Although he has no formal theological training, he has been published in the Catholic World Report, New Oxford Review, "The Door", Catholic Digest, and "Christianity and Literature". Until 1 January 2016, Shea maintained the "Catholic and Enjoying It!" blog. Shea contributed a column to the National Catholic Register until they fired him for publicly engaging in such a way that was considered irreconcilable with their "... editorial vision or standards of charitable discussion. His one-minute “Words of Encouragement” segments have been broadcast nationally in the United States on Ave Maria Radio.
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Ramsey Carpenter Ramsey Bethann Carpenter-Bearse (born December 1991) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Hartford, Kentucky who was named Miss Kentucky 2014 on July 12, 2014. She competed for the title of Miss America 2015, where she won the preliminary talent competition and placed in the Top 12 as a semi-finalist. Her platform issue is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness.