The Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza is being transferred to the Czech Republic.
Leanza, recently summoned back to the Vatican for ‘consultations’ resulting from the “Cloyne Report”, is at the centre of the fallout between the Catholic Church and the Irish Prime Minister.
Appointed to Dublin in February 2008, Lenza was due to finish is post in Ireland this summer.
Ireland’s “The Journal” reports that a spokesperson for the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs could not confirm when the Holy See had applied for diplomatic credentials, but that the application would be likely to have been in June.
The Apostolic Nunciature of the Czech Republic has been vacant since the end of May, when the incumbent Nuncio was transferred to the nunciature of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
It had not yet been confirmed when Archbishop Leanza will more to Prague, but it is expected that Leanza will return to Dublin to personally present the Vatican’s response to the Cloyne Report.
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