Octavi Vilà, Bishop of Girona, Wins Points as Omella's Successor in Barcelona
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Octavi Vilà, Bishop of Gerona and former Abbot of Poblet, is the best placed candidate to succeed Archbishop Omella, who has already turned eighty.
There is still no date for the announcement of Omella's successor, who ends his term at the head of the archdiocese this year.
The bishop of Gerona, Octavi Vilà Mayo, is the main candidate to occupy the Barcelona see, replacing Cardinal Juan José Omella, who turned 80 last April and lost his position as cardinal elector in a hypothetical conclave. Read
The Bishop of Gerona is in the first place of thetern that the Dicastery for the Bishops raised to the Pope, next to the Bishop of Tortosa
The appointment could be made public in the coming weeks and would still be pending the Pope's signature.
The unknown seems to be already clear. The first great appointment that Pope Leo XIV had to face in Spain, and also his Apostolic legacy, Monsignor Piero Pioppo, the Archbishop of Barcelona, substitute for Cardinal Juan José Omella, already has a name: Fr. Octavi Vilà i Mayo, current bishop of Gerona and exabad de Poblet.
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