GUAM
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Associated Press
November 15, 2016
HAGATNAM, Guam – Guam is preparing a series of events in late November to welcome the man who could become its next archbishop.
Coadjutor Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes will arrive from Detroit on Nov. 28 and be welcomed by Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai and other clergy members, the Archdiocese of Agana told The Pacific Daily News.
Hon was sent to Guam in June to temporarily replace current Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron on an administrative basis.
Apuron, 71, has been Guam’s highest Catholic leader for 30 years but faces a trial in Rome over multiple allegations of sex abuse of altar boys in the 1970s.
Byrnes, 58, will have the right to succeed Apuron if he resigns, retires or is removed. Byrnes was auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit before Pope Francis appointed him to the Guam post.
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