‘There is plenty of life’: Bishop Lopes on the Australian ordinariate’s future

On Monday the bishop was named the new administrator of Australia’s ordinariate for former Anglicans.

Pope Leo XIV named Monday a new apostolic administrator to oversee Australia’s ordinariate for groups of former Anglicans, amid questions about its long-term future.

Bishop Steven Lopes. Credit: victorpanlilio/wikimedia CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Vatican announced May 11 that the pope had named Bishop Steven Lopes, the head of North America’s Personal Ordinariate …