Pope Leo XIV on Friday named the Rev Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, now pastor of a predominantly Hispanic church in the Queens borough of New York City, as bishop of Palm Beach, Florida.
The diocese is home to the Mar-a-Lago estate of Donald Trump, whose get-tough immigration policies have drawn objections from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Rodríguez has been a staunch advocate for migrants, which make up most of his 17,000 congregants at the Our Lady of Sorrows church – the largest parish in the diocese of Brooklyn, which also oversees churches in Queens.
The diocese of Palm Be
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