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Pope Leo XIV appoints Father Emilio Biosca Agüero to Florida diocese

newsMay 13, 202613162

Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Emilio Biosca Agüero as bishop of the Diocese of Naples in southwest Florida. Biosca, a Capuchin Franciscan WHO led a heavily Salvadoran Mount Pleasant parish in Washington D.C., has lost more than 40 parishioners to ICE detention and deportation since August. The appointment places an immigrant-ally priest over politically conservative, Trump-leaning communities and highlights the Vatican elevating clergy with direct experience on immigration enforcement and pastoral care.

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