The pope appointed a new archbishop after expelling another for sexual assault

After expelling Anthony Sablan Apuron, convicted badual abuse to minors, Pope Francisco appointed a new archbishop Agaña, capital of the island of Guam, reported TN.

It is Michael Jude Byrnes, who was already coadjutor at the head of the archdiocese since Sablan Apuron had to face his trial.

The expulsion of the former archbishop was announced on Thursday, a decision to which the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith supported the conviction in first instance in March 2018, which was appealed.

Sanctions imposed by the Holy See on Sablan Apuron are the exclusion of his duties, the perpetual ban on living in the archdiocese of Agaña and the ban on the use of insignia of the bishop.

The Sablan Apuron case arrived at the Vatican Court on October 5, 2016 and one of its members, American Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, went in early 2017 to this small Pacific island. to collect the testimony of both parties.

Apuron, now 73, was accused by three men of badually abusing them while they were altar boys in the 1970s. , the mother of a fourth victim, who is not alive, also charged him with the same charges.