The pope has replaced the archbishop found guilty of sexual abuse on minors

As part of his efforts to "cleanse the Vatican from sin" and after expelling Anthony Sablan Apuron, convicted of badual abuse of minors, Pope Francis appointed a new archbishop to Agaña, the capital of the country. Guam Island.

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 that the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith endorsed in a first-instance conviction in March 2018, which appealed the accused.

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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 case of Sablan Apuron 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 testimonies 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.

Recently, Francisco said that at the Vatican "we must clean up" because it is a state that is not saved from sins. "We have the same limits and sometimes fall into the same things, the job is to clean, clean, clean," he said.