Curious Venezuelan bishop appointment could reflect Church-state struggle
Episcopal appointments in Venezuela are not usually headline news, but a series of strange circumstances make one recent appointment quite peculiar.
On October 31, Pope Francis appointed Monsignor Hugo Basabe as Archbishop of Coro, Venezuela.
Episcopal appointments in Venezuela are not usually headline news, but a series of strange circumstances make this appointment quite peculiar.
Since 2017, Monsignor Víctor Hugo Basabe, 62, has been the bishop of San Felipe, a small diocese in the central western …