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Resignations

North Carolina

Charlotte, N.C., bishop resigns for health reasons; Franciscan named as successor

OSV News|Apr 8, 2024|6 Min Read

Stika

Vatican accepts early resignation of embattled Bishop Stika of Knoxville

OSV News|Jun 27, 2023|5 Min Read

Bishop Mulakkal

World

Pope accepts resignation of India bishop acquitted of rape, nun files appeal

Carol Glatz|Jun 1, 2023|3 Min Read

Resignation

Pope reveals he prepared resignation letter in case of impairment

Cindy Wooden|Dec 19, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Benedict XVI views the casket of St. Celestine V, a 13th-century pope who resigned, during his visit to the earthquake-damaged Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio in L'Aquila, Italy, in this April 28, 2009, file photo. Pope Benedict retired in 2013. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

Stepping down: Experts draft proposed laws on status of a retired pope

Carol Glatz|Aug 11, 2022|6 Min Read

Archbishop Antony Kariyil, administrator of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, resigned July 26, 2022, at the request of the Vatican after he was accused of defying the church's supreme synod in a decades-long liturgical dispute. He is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/Anto Akkara)

World

Indian archbishop resigns at Vatican request amid liturgical dispute

Catholic News Service|Jul 27, 2022|2 Min Read

Pope Benedict XVI lays his pallium on the casket of St. Celestine V, a 13th-century pope who resigned, during a 2009 visit to the Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio in L'Aquila, Italy, in this April 28, 2009, file photo. The Vatican announced June 4, 2022, that Pope Francis will visit LAquila Aug. 28 and will celebrate Mass in the square outside the basilica. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

Pope's trip to L'Aquila raises questions about papal resignations

Cindy Wooden|Jun 5, 2022|2 Min Read

Scalabrinian Father Jacques E. Fabre, currently administrator of San Filipe de Jesus Catholic Mission in Forest Park, Ga., is seen in this undated photo. On Feb. 22, 2022, Pope Francis named named Father Fabre to succeed Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone of Charleston, S.C., whose resignation the pope accepted the same day. (CNS photo/Michael Alexander, The Georgia Bulletin)

Pope Francis appoints Father Jacques Fabre as new bishop of Charleston

Courtney Mares|Feb 22, 2022|2 Min Read

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., left, and Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, La., are seen in this composite photo. Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop Kurtz Feb. 8, 2022, who is 75, the age at which canon law requires bishops to turn in their resignation to the pope, and named Bishop Fabre to succeed him. (CNS composite; photos by Tyler Orsburn and Bob Roller)

Louisville, Ky., archbishop retires; pope names Black bishop as successor

Catholic News Service|Feb 8, 2022|5 Min Read

Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, participates in a news conference to unveil a new platform for action based on Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si', at the Vatican in this May 25, 2021, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Cardinal Turkson says he offered to resign at end of his term

Cindy Wooden|Dec 20, 2021|4 Min Read

Bishop Robert J. Brennan, left, concelebrates Mass at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre, N.Y., Feb. 1, 2019, a day after he was named to head the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio. Also pictured is Bishop John O. Barres of Rockville Centre. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Pope names Columbus bishop to succeed Brooklyn's DiMarzio

Hannah Brockhaus|Sep 29, 2021|4 Min Read

Pope Francis gives a rosary to a member of the medical staff at Gemelli hospital in Rome July 11, 2021, as he recovers following scheduled colon surgery. The pope expressed his gratitude for "making me feel at home" while he recovered from surgery, in a July 15 letter to the chairman of the board of directors of the hospital. He was released July 14. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters)

Pope says nurse saved his life, brushes off ‘hurricane’ of resignation rumors

Inés San Martín|Aug 30, 2021|2 Min Read

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