On March 28, Pope Francis appointed Convocar apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Agaña until the nomination of a new archbishop.
According to Pacific Daily News, Byrnes left Guam in late June 2022.
Byrnes, who is from Detroit, Michigan, was appointed co-adjutor archbishop of Agaña in October 2016, after Guam’s Archbishop Apuron was accused of the sexual abuse of minors.
Though he was still formally archbishop, Apuron had been relieved of his pastoral and administrative authority in June 2016. Byrnes succeeded Apuron in April 2019.
Apuron was found guilty of several abuse-related charges by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in March 2018. The conviction was upheld on appeal in February 2019, and the final sentencing was announced April 4, 2019.
Apuron was deprived of his office as Archbishop of Agaña; forbidden from using its insignia, including the bishop’s miter and ring; and banned from living within the jurisdiction of the archdiocese. He was not removed from ministry and remains a priest under church law.
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