Byrnes Back from Detroit, Focused on Guam

By Neil Pang
Guam Daily Post
January 23, 2017

http://www.postguam.com/news/local/byrnes-back-from-detroit-focused-on-guam/article_de40b542-e142-11e6-bc83-93966e1ba314.html

Coadjutor Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes arrived back in Guam yesterday to resume his duties as head of the Archdiocese of Agana.

Byrnes was installed as the coadjutor archbishop of the archdiocese by Pope Francis in late October 2016 and made his first trip to Guam on Nov. 26. Chancery officials said he made the trip to Guam in time for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, or Santa Maria Kamalen, on Dec. 8.

Unfinished business

Church officials explained that Byrnes had to return to Detroit, where he last served as an auxiliary bishop, to wrap up unfinished business. Now that he has tied up loose ends, chancery officials said that he will be able to focus completely on his duties as the head of Guam's largest faith community and the many issues it currently faces.

The archdiocese faces 15 civil lawsuits alleging the church's involvement in child sex abuse cases going back as far as the 1950s.