HAGÅTÑA (GUAM)
Pacific Daily News
June 14, 2018
By Haidee Eugenio
Guam’s controversial archbishop, removed from office in March and barred from living in the U.S. territory, has appealed a Vatican tribunal’s ruling that found him guilty of “certain accusations” involving the sexual abuse of minors, the Archdiocese of Agaña said Thursday.
During the last week of April, Rome notified new Archbishop Michael Byrnes, tapped to replace Anthony S. Apuron on March 16, about Apuron’s appeal, according to Tony Diaz, director of communications for the archdiocese.
Whether an appeal could result in reversal of the verdict “would be up to Rome,” Diaz said.
Pope Francis placed Apuron on leave in June 2016 after former altar boys and their families accused the archbishop of sexually abusing children in the 1970s when he was a parish priest in the village of Agat.
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