Pope Moves St. Peter’s Archpriest to Italian Diocese without Naming Successor
Gambetti leaves three Vatican posts to lead the archdiocese after Archbishop Bruno Forte resigned at the age limit, Vatican News said.
- On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV appointed Cardinal Mauro Gambetti as the new Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, transferring him from his positions as Vicar General of His Holiness and Archpriest of St. Peter's Papal Basilica.
- Previously, Gambetti served as President of the Fabric of Saint Peter and was created a Cardinal by Pope Francis in 2020 after leading the Sacred Convent of St. Francis in Assisi.
- As President of the Fabric of Saint Peter, Gambetti oversaw restoration of the nearly 100-foot-tall baldachin by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, with the office "deals with everything that concerns the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter" per "Praedicate Evangelium".
- Gambetti succeeds Archbishop Bruno Forte, whose resignation from the pastoral governance of the archdiocese was accepted by the pope, with the Vatican announcing the transition on October 3.
- Although the archpriest position is vacant, Leo XIV has not yet named a successor, leaving Italian Bishop Calogero La Piana to continue overseeing the basilica complex as the current vicar.
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Leo XIV has appointed Italian Cardinal Mauro Gambetti the new Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto
A transfer, that to the archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto, that for the different weight and visibility of the two assignments, can hardly be read as a promotion and that above all signals the will of the American Pope to give a new direction to the management of the main temple of Christendom
After days of indiscretions, comes the official: takes the place of Msgr. Bruno Forte
Pope appoints Cardinal Gambetti as new Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto
Pope Leo XIV has chosen the 60-year-old Cardinal from Bologna, a Conventual Franciscan, as the new shepherd of the archdiocese in Abruzzo, after accepting the resignation of Archbishop Bruno Forte, 77. Since February 2021, Gambetti has served as Vicar General of His Holiness for Vatican City, Archpriest of St. Peter’s Papal Basilica in the Vatican, and President of the Fabric of Saint Peter. Previously, from 2013 to 2020, he was Custos of the Sa…
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