A move to appoint new bishops swiftly in dioceses where there are none is certain to worsen tension between the Vatican and China Patriotic church.
Filling the more than 40 empty bishop’s seats is an urgent task because the vacancies are causing serious problems in the handling of church affairs, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted a spokesman as saying. China’s Catholic Church had agreed at a recent meeting to “strive to select and ordain bishops in these dioceses without delay.”
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