Vatican: Papa Leo XIV appoints Nicaragua New Auxiliary Bishop of Newark in the US.

Pope Leo XIV appointed the Nicaraguan priest Pedro Bismarck Chau, until now rector of the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, as a new Newark auxiliary bishop in the United States.

The appointment “is a powerful sign, a very important message that Pope León sends him to the Christian people of Nicaragua. It is a blow to the dictatorship that believed that the banishment was the end, which believed that the banish Report the excesses of the dictatorship led by Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo.

“This appointment is a boost, a divine support for people who remain from exile pastors, who are still guardians of faith, who continue to take care of a people still in exile,” he adds.

In relation to the dictatorship of Nicaragua, McFields emphasizes that “they have not been able to defeat faith, they have not been able to defeat the shepherds of the Church.” “This appointment is a huge victory for the people of Nicaragua. The Pope is saying ‘are not alone,” he emphasizes.

Martha Patricia Molina, author of the report Nicaragua: a persecuted churchthat in its last edition he denounces almost 1,000 attacks of the dictatorship against the Catholic Church, he told ACI Press that “it is a blessing to know that our Nicaraguan people continue to make a way and history of evangelization.”

“Nicaraguans are good people even though we have one of the most criminal dictatorships in contemporary history. I hope Bishop Chau continues to support Nicaraguan migrants,” he says.

“His appointment by the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, is testimony of the deep Catholic roots of the Nicaraguan people and the universal beauty of our Church, in which each culture finds a home,” says Aci Press Félix Maradiaga, president of the Freedom Foundation for Nicaragua and former political prisoner.

“In the midst of the hard persecution suffered by the Church in Nicaragua at the hands of a dictatorship that represses faith and freedom, this gesture of the Holy Father is also a sign of hope. We humbly ask for his holiness that continues to lead his pastoral gaze towards our suffering people and to our persecuted shepherds,” he adds.

Mons. Silvio Báez, auxiliary bishop of Managua, who has lived in exile since 2019, also expressed his joy in your x account for the appointment of his compatriot.

Mons. Chau happens in office to Mons. Gregory J. Studerus (77), whose resignation was accepted for having exceeded the retirement age of 75 -year -old bishops.

Who is the Nicaraguan named Bishop in the United States?

Pedro Bismarck Chau is the Nicaraguan priest who has been appointed bishop in the United States today. He was born on July 18, 1964 in Managua, Nicaragua. He is 60 years old. He studied at the Seton Hall University of South Orange, obtaining the baccalaureate in Psychology.

According to the press office of the Vaticanhe did his ecclesiastical studies at the Seminar of the Immaculate Conception of South Orange and later obtained a counseling master’s degree from the University of Seton Hall.

He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark on May 24, 2008.

He has played, among others, the following positions: Parish Vicar of Our Lady of the Mount Virgen in Garfield (2008-2012); Vocations Director (2012-2016); Responsible for the University Pastoral of the Rutgers University and the Technological Institute of New Jersey (2015-2020).

He has also been pastor of the Pro-Catedral de San Juan and San Patricio in Newark (2015-2020) and rector of the Basilica Cathedral of the Sacred Heart since 2020.