Pope Moves St. Peter's Archpriest to Italian Diocese without Naming Successor
Gambetti leaves three Vatican posts to lead the archdiocese after Archbishop Bruno Forte resigned at the age limit, Vatican News said.
- On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV appointed Cardinal Mauro Gambetti as the new Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, transferring him from his positions as Vicar General of His Holiness and Archpriest of St. Peter's Papal Basilica.
- Previously, Gambetti served as President of the Fabric of Saint Peter and was created a Cardinal by Pope Francis in 2020 after leading the Sacred Convent of St. Francis in Assisi.
- As President of the Fabric of Saint Peter, Gambetti oversaw restoration of the nearly 100-foot-tall baldachin by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, with the office "deals with everything that concerns the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter" per "Praedicate Evangelium".
- Gambetti succeeds Archbishop Bruno Forte, whose resignation from the pastoral governance of the archdiocese was accepted by the pope, with the Vatican announcing the transition on October 3.
- Although the archpriest position is vacant, Leo XIV has not yet named a successor, leaving Italian Bishop Calogero La Piana to continue overseeing the basilica complex as the current vicar.
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Pope moves St. Peter's archpriest to Italian diocese without naming successor
(OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV named Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, who has served for over five years as archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and the pope’s vicar for Vatican City, as archbishop of the central Italian Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto. The Vatican announced Oct. 3 that Cardinal Gambetti would succeed Archbishop Bruno Forte, whose resignation was accepted by the pope. However, the pope did not immediately name a new archpriest of St. Peter’s Basil…
Leo XIV has appointed Italian Cardinal Mauro Gambetti the new Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto
A transfer, that to the archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto, that for the different weight and visibility of the two assignments, can hardly be read as a promotion and that above all signals the will of the American Pope to give a new direction to the management of the main temple of Christendom
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