In the Netherlands: Little diocese, big appointment

In the Netherlands: Little diocese, big appointment

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.Msgr. Ronald Cornelissen. Pillar file photo.Cornelissen, a close collaborator of Cardinal Wim Eijk of Utrecht, will now take the helm of the smallest diocese in the Nethe…