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The most recent pope to resign was Benedict XVI, who vacated the Holy See on 28 February 2013, the date of his effective resignation. He was the first pope to do so since Gregory XII in 1415. Despite its common usage in discussion of papal renunciations, [2] the term abdication is not used in the official documents of the church for ...
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, three years after it was submitted. Pope accepts resignation of cardinal accused of covering up clergy ...
The Vatican provided no details on why Pope Francis accepted Becciu's resignation in a statement late Thursday. In the one-sentence announcement, the Holy See said only that Francis had accepted ...
Pope Francis has revealed in an interview published Sunday Dec. 18, 2022 that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from ...
Due to health issues, Archbishop Michael Jackels of Dubuque in April 2023 asked Francis to immediately accept his resignation as archbishop. Francis accepted the resignation on April 4, 2023, and appointed Pates as apostolic administrator of the archdiocese until Thomas Robert Zinkula was appointed the Archbishop on July 26.
In 2013, Scola again was a leading candidate to be elected pope [11] —and the press service of the Italian Bishops' Conference mistakenly announced Scola's election [12] —in the conclave that elected Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis. Pope Francis accepted Scola's resignation on 7 July 2017 and appointed Bishop Mario Delpini as his ...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has no intention of resigning as he feels that his health is good enough to allow him to carry on, he says in a new book whose excerpts were published by Italy ...
Francis was mandated by electing cardinals to sort out Vatican finances following scandals during the papacies of Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul II. He stated he is determined to end corruption in the Catholic Church but is not very optimistic due to it being a human problem dating back centuries.