Westminster. Leo XIV chooses Mons. Moth

Vatican City – After yesterday’s announcement of the appointment of the Archbishop of New York, today the Holy See Press Office has communicated a measure of equal significance. Pope Leo XIV, accepting the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Westminster submitted by H.E. Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols, has appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Westminster H.E. Msgr. Richard Moth, until now Bishop of Arundel and Brighton.
The decision opens a new phase for a see which, by history and ecclesial weight, represents a pivot not only for Londonbut for the whole of British Catholicism: Westminster is not a diocese “like any other”, but the chair from which the metropolitan archbishop leads a community called to face particularly acute pastoral and cultural challenges in the English context.
The resignation of Nichols
With the acceptance of Cardinal Vincent Nichols’ resignation, the Pope formally brings to a close a season that began in …