The coadjutor bishop of Guam has said that the island’s archbishop should not return to lead the diocese regardless of the outcome of a Vatican trial against him.
Coadjutor Archbishop Michael Byrnes said: “I think it would be a disaster if Archbishop Apuron were to return as the bishop of record.” There had been a wide loss of trust among the faithful, he said, and “widespread disarray” in Church operations.
Coadjutor Archbishop Byrnes, a former auxiliary bishop of Detroit, spoke to the press in Agana, the capital of the US territory of Guam, last week, offering an update of the canonical investigation and trial of Archbishop Apuron.
