Saturday, October 04, 2014 | 9:01 AM
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AFP) – Pope Francis appointed Saturday Franciscan Stane Zore new archbishop of Ljubljana and head of Slovenia’s Catholic Church, a year after his predecessor was sacked over a financial scandal.
“The appointment of Father Stane Zore as new archbishop is a pleasant surprise both for him and for our Church,” Tadej Strehovec, the secretary general of Slovenia’s Bishops Conference told a news conference shortly after the appointment was published by the Holy See.
In August 2013, Pope Francis sacked the Archbishop of Ljubljana Anton Stres and the Archbishop of Maribor Marjan Turnsek over a financial scandal that has reportedly left one archdiocese with a budget shortfall of 800 million euros (just over $1 billion).
Tiny Slovenia only has two Catholic archdioceses.
Zore, 56, has been serving as the provincial of the Slovenian Franciscan province of St Crossis and as the president of Slovenia’s Conference of religious orders.
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Pope appoints new head of scandal-hit Slovenian Church
