Pope Leo XIV has replaced Cardinal Konrad Krajewski as the head of the Vatican’s principal charitable office, appointing the Spanish Augustinian Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín as the new Almoner of His Holiness and Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity.
Announced at midday by the Holy See Press Office on 12 March, the brief Vatican bulletin stated: “The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín, OSA, titular bishop of Suliana and currently under-secretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod, as Almoner of His Holiness and Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, conferring on him the dignity of archbishop.”
