Vatican City, Feb 27, 2020 / 08:30 am
Pope Francis has appointed four new bishops to serve in American dioceses. The appointments, announced Thursday, include three new auxiliary bishops for the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, and one new auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of San Diego, California.
The appointments include a Benedictine monk who currently leads the American-Cassinese Congregation.
The Vatican announced Feb. 27 that Fr. Ramon Bejarano will be consecrated as auxiliary bishop for San Diego. The three new auxiliary bishops for the Newark archdiocese are Msgr. Gregory Studerus, Fr. Michael Saporito, and Abbot Elias Lorenzo.
Abbot Lorenzo, 59 is a monk of St. Mary's Abbey in Morristown, New Jersey, who was previously prior of the Benedictine Abbey of Sant'Anselmo in Rome. Lorenzo has served as abbott president of the American-Cassinese Congregation, an association of 25 Benedictine monasteries, since 2016.