Parish Archbishop “Puts His Mandate Back”
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“I handed over my office to the Pope to safeguard the diocese,” he told La-Croix.com, stressing that he didn’t use the word “resignation.”
"I do it for the diocese, not for what I am supposed to have done in the past," he explained.
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