Pope Leo XIV appointed Bishop Steven Lopes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (U.S. and Canada) as apostolic administrator of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Australia).
Bishop Lopes will thus govern, at least temporarily, two of the Church’s three personal ordinariates of former Anglicans. The other ordinariate is located in England.
Bishop Lopes succeeds Archbishop Anthony Randazzo, now prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, as apostolic administrator of the Australian ordinariate.