Bishop Ciro Quispe, Juli’s Prelate Emeritus, in the Andean South of Peru, broke the silence after his resignation a few days ago and said he voluntarily presented it “after a time of reflection and prayer.”
The resignation of Mons. Quispe was given after an investigation of the Vatican for accusations of alleged bad sexual behaviors and bad economic management, and was accepted by Pope Leo XIV, as announced by the Vatican on September 24.
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In his statement dated October 2 and published on the Facebook page of Juli’s Prelature, Mons. Quispe thanked God and the local faithful for his love and said that he leaves “with much sadness this town, which has an inexplicable unique charm, as I have written in my last books or pronounced in my various homilies”.
“I retire by my own decision and I hope and pray for the sake of our Prelature. To date I have no complaint in the civil jurisdiction, nor a process in the ecclesiastical jurisdiction,” said Bishop Quispe.
“Unfortunately and against my own will, I had to denounce, at the time, some people and journalists who defame and harassed us, without mercy, during this last year, lucidly dividing the feeling of our people,” he added without giving more details.
The resignation of Mons. Quispe took place after an investigation of the Holy See initiated in mid -2024 for accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior with women and poor fund management in the prelature. The investigation was commissioned to Mons. Marco Antonio Cortez Lara, although its results have not been publicly disclosed.
“I pray to the Lord of Life so that one day the truth comes to light,” added Mons. Quispe, who was preceded by Juli since 2018, when Pope Francis appointed him.
In addition, he asked “forgiveness to all those who offended with my actions and words” as well as the “mistakes I surely made for my inexperience, not for bad faith.”
Finally, the bishop asked “with humility and contrite heart, which also recounts for this poor sinner.”
He communication It was published by Mons. Giovanni Cefai, Juli Apostolic Administrator, on the Facebook page of the Prelature, who said that the text of Mons. Ciro Quispe “corresponds exclusively to her personal opinion and reflects only her thinking.”
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.