Pope Francis has called on Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Stockholm and Bishop Johannes van den Hende of Rotterdam to undertake an Apostolic Visitation of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany.
The Holy See website describes an Apostolic Visitation as “an exceptional initiative of the Holy See which involves sending a Visitor or Visitors to evaluate an ecclesiastical institute” with the intention of assisting “the institute in question to improve the way in which it carries out its function in the life of the Church.”
