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Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a head of a major Vatican office since his election: Archbishop Filippo Iannone as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops.
Pope Leo XIV exhorted new bishops to address issues related to inappropriate behavior on the part of the clergy: “They can’t be put away in a drawer.”
The Episcopal Conference of the Italian Region of Lazio, which includes the Catholic Diocese of Rome, the Papal Seat, has issued a favourable opinion for the opening of the cause for beatification of Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, the first African to lead the Dicastery for Bishops in the Vatican.
Cardinal Francis Prevost said the question of the selection process for bishops and the way in which it is carried out has been one of the issues discussed at the synod.
A bishop should nurture closeness to Christ, share the beauty of the faith, use social media wisely, and have a universal vision, the new head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops shared this week.