Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 12, 2023 / 12:15 pm
Pope Francis appointed a Colombian-born priest, Father Juan Carlos Londoño, to serve as a new auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Quebec, Canada, the Vatican announced on Tuesday.
“We welcome with great joy the new auxiliary bishop that Pope Francis is offering us at the start of our jubilee year of the 350th anniversary of the diocese,” Archbishop Cardinal Gérald Lacroix of the Archdiocese of Quebec said in a statement on Tuesday.
Londoño, who was ordained on Nov. 24, 2001, was originally a priest for the Archdiocese of Medellín, Colombia. Since 2008, he had been serving in the Diocese of Gaspé, Canada, assigned to the titular See of Beatia, as an overseas priest “fidei donum,” or a priest who retains his association with his home diocese but serves another diocese.
“There is a wink from the Lord in receiving a missionary bishop,” Lacroix said in his announcement. “We were born from a great missionary impulse and we wish to continue to be a missionary diocese because the proclamation of the Gospel is always a great challenge for our time.”