This May 4, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Óscar Armando Campos Contreras, 76, from the pastoral government of the Diocese of Ciudad Guzmán, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, and named Bishop Herculano Medina Garfias as his successor. , 56 years old, until now Auxiliary Bishop of Morelia.
This was reported today by the Vatican Press Office. Simultaneously, the Apostolic Nunciature in Mexico spread the news through a statement from the General Secretariat of the Mexican Episcopate Conference (CEM).
In the statement, signed by Bishop Ramón Castro Castro, general secretary of the CEM, the Episcopate thanked “the Episcopal ministry carried out by Bishop Óscar Armando Campos Contreras, in the Diocese of Ciudad Guzmán, and we unite in joy and prayer for this Particular Church with its new pastor: Mons. Herculano Medina Garfias, to whom we wish a fruitful performance at the beginning of his Episcopal ministry that the Lord has entrusted to him.”