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Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the former Bishop of Limburg who triggered a scandal over the cost of his lavish bishop’s residence, has been given a new assignent in Rome: he will hold a catechesis-related post in the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation

ANDREA TORNIELLI
VATICAN CITY

The Secretariat of State informed him of his new post last 5 December. The 55-year-old former Bishop of Limburg, Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, has been given a new appointment following the scandal surrounding his excessive spending on a restructuring project for his residence and the local curia. The situation the scandal created and the enormous media attention the case attracted worldwide meant it was difficult for the prelate to be placed in another German diocese. The solution was therefore to create a brand new position within the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation…