Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop John Myers of Newark, New Jersey, and named Cardinal-designate Joseph Tobin of Indianapolis to succeed him.
Archbishop Myers, Newark's archbishop since 2001, is 75, the age at which canon law requires bishops to turn in their resignation to the pope.
The 64-year-old cardinal-designate, who is a member of the Redemptorist order, has been the archbishop of Indianapolis since 2012 and was named a new cardinal by Pope Francis on October 9. He also is former archbishop-secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. As secretary, he was credited with helping change the tone of a Vatican-ordered apostolic visitation of US women's religious communities from an investigation into a dialogue.
