GUAM
KUAM
Updated: Sep 19, 2016
By Krystal Paco
Guam could soon have a new archbishop leading the Archdiocese of Agana. In a message read to parishioners over the weekend from apostolic administrator Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, he announces he’s in Rome to meet with the Holy See to remove Archbishop Anthony Apuron and to appoint a successor. According to Hon, he and the Presbyterial Council wrote to Apuron calling on him to resign.
That, however, was unsuccessful.
According to delegate of the administrator Father Jeff San Nicolas, that letter to Apuron was addressed in July. Father Jeff has been left in charge until Hon’s return this Thursday.
Father Jeff said, “What he is doing in Rome is advocating that our diocese be made a status sede vacante, meaning that we would no longer have a bishop. In other words, that Archbishop Apuron would no longer be the bishop of our archdiocese.”
The action is welcome news to the Concerned Catholics of Guam, who’ve been rallying for years for Apuron to step down or be removed as head of the local church. Andrew Camacho is the vice president of the CCOG, and told KUAM News, “That was a very positive thing that happened and we hope that the Pope and the Holy See will see fit to follow that advice.”
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