MINNESOTA
National Catholic Reporter
Pope Francis has named Fr. Andrew H. Cozzens new auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
Cozzens was assistant professor at St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity in Saint Paul, Minnesota, according to Vatican radio.
The appointment comes as Archbishop John Nienstedt is under fire for the way his archdiocese handled an alleged pornography cover-up inside his chancery. The archdiocese has been accused of withholding from police images of child pornography that were on a priest’s laptop, deciding instead to place the evidence in a church-owned vault.
Nienstedt’s top deputy resigned abruptly last week in response to the allegation that he covered up evidence of the child pornography.
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