Francis extends cardinal dean’s term

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re will continue past his five-year term, with no indication of when a new dean could be elected

Pope Francis has extended the terms of the dean and subdean of the College of Cardinals, the Vatican announced Thursday.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. Image credit: Lorenzo Iorfino, CC BY-SA 4.0

According to the Vatican press office, the pope “extended the approval granted by Him to the election of the Most Eminent Lord Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re as D…