In the Netherlands: Little diocese, big appointment
How appointing a new bishop to a small Dutch diocese changes the country's episcopal map
An episcopal appointment Monday to a small Dutch diocese might have an outsized influence in the future of the Netherlands’ episcopal map.
Pope Leo XIV appointed on July 7 Msgr. Ronald Cornelissen, a priest of the Archdiocese of Utrecht, as the new Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden.
Cornelissen, a close collaborato…