Vatican City, Dec 18 (EFE).- Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, presented upon reaching the retirement age (75) last February and has appointed as his successor Ronald A. Hicks, hailing from Chicago and with a past as a missionary in Latin America, the Vatican reported this Thursday.
Thus, the American pope replaces the powerful Dolan, a cardinal very close to Donald Trump and with conservative positions, who, however, spoke out against the immigration policies of the President of the United States, as did all the bishops of that country.
Now, New York, one of the most influential ecclesiastical sees in the United States with a significant presence of parishes and an immigrant community, will be led by Ronald Aldon Hicks, born on August 4, 1967, in Illinois and with a degree in Philosophy from Loyola University in Chicago.
He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 21, 1994.
In July 2005, Hicks moved from Chicago to El Salvador and Mexico to begin his five-year mandate as regional director of the organization 'Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH)' in Central America.
NPH is a home dedicated to caring for more than 3,400 orphaned and abandoned children in nine Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Subsequently, from 2010 to 2014, Bishop Hicks was dean of formation at Mundelein Seminary in Chicago.
