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Pope Leo XIV taps an Australian church lawyer as Vatican’s chief legal expert
Bishop Anthony Randazzo, 59, will lead the Vatican’s Dicastery for Legislative Texts, addressing legal gaps in canon law amid Church abuse case reforms.
- Pope Leo XIV named Australian Bishop Anthony Randazzo to lead the Vatican's office that oversees the Catholic Church's legal system.
- Randazzo, 59, is the first Australian to lead a Vatican office since Cardinal George Pell was the Church's finance czar from 2014 to 2019.
- As a young bishop at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Randazzo dealt with the fallout of the clergy sexual abuse crisis in Australia.
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Australian bishop surprised by appointment to senior Vatican role
Anthony Randazzo, the bishop of Broken Bay, which since 2019 covers Sydney's northern regions and the central coast, receives the personal title of archbishop and is named as Prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts.
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Australian bishop to lead Vatican legal department
Pope Leo XIV appointed the Australian Bishop of Broken Bay Wednesday as head of the Vatican department charged with authoritatively interpreting canon law.Archbishop Anthony Randazzo. Credit: Screenshot from @bbcatholic YouTube channel.The pope named Bishop Anthony Randazzo as the prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts March 25, the feast of the Annunciation. Randazzo succeeds the Italian Archbishop Filippo Iannone, who was appointed as …
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