Rome, Italy, Feb 18, 2012 / 11:07 am
Cardinal Velasio de Paolis has named Fr. Sylvester Heereman as the vicar general of the Legionaries of Christ and Fr. Deomar De Guedes as its general councilor, replacing two officials who resigned in recent months.
Cardinal de Paolis is the pontifical delegate to the Legion of Christ and its lay branch Regnum Christi. He is leading the reform of the troubled congregation, which announced the new appointments on Feb. 16.
Fr. Heereman was born in Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany on Sept. 10, 1974. He entered the Legion of Christ in Germany in 1994 and made his first profession in 1996, before his final profession in 1999.
He served as the Legion’s territorial secretary for Italy from 2001 to 2003 and was part of the formation team at the Center for Higher Studies in Rome from 2004 to 2006. He was ordained to the priesthood in December 2006 and was named territorial director of Germany in February 2007.