ROME — Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of the Chaldean Catholic bishop of San Diego, California, a choice introduced Tuesday by the Vatican after the bishop was arrested on embezzlement prices.
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Workplace stated final week it had arrested Bishop Emmanuel Shaleta on March 5 at San Diego Worldwide Airport as he tried to depart the nation. The workplace stated it acted after somebody from Shaleta’s church supplied a press release and documentation “displaying potential embezzlement from the church.”
Shaleta was being held on $125,000 bail on eight counts of embezzlement, cash laundering and aggravated white collar crime, the assertion stated.
There was no quick reply to an e-mail despatched to Shaleta’s parish, St. Peter Chaldean Church, searching for remark and speak to info for his legal professional.
The Vatican stated in its every day bulletin Tuesday that Leo had accepted Sheleta’s resignation below the code of canon legislation for japanese ceremony church buildings that enables for the pope to agree if a bishop asks to step down.
Leo truly accepted the resignation when Shaleta offered it in February, however an announcement was not made till Tuesday, in line with the Vatican embassy in Washington. The Holy See seems to have waited to announce the choice to keep away from interfering with the police investigation.
Leo named Bishop Saad Hanna Sirop as a brief administrator.
Shaleta, 69, was ordained a priest of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Detroit in 1984. He was named to the San Diego department of the japanese ceremony Catholic Church within the U.S. in 2017.
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