Pope Francis appointed Frank Leo officially installed as new Archbishop of Toronto – Toronto | 24CA News
The largest archdiocese in Canada’s Catholic Church has a brand new man on the helm as of at present.
About 1,200 individuals had been anticipated to attend the mass of set up for Frank Leo, who now serves as Archbishop of Toronto.
The set up ceremony at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica in downtown Toronto occurred about six weeks after Pope Francis formally named Leo to the publish.
Leo succeeds Cardinal Thomas Collins, who supplied his resignation on his seventy fifth birthday in January 2022 in compliance with a rule stating all bishops should provide to step down once they attain that age.
Leo was first named a Bishop in July 2022, making him one in all Canada’s latest appointees to such a job, and he was put in as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Montreal two months later.
He was born in Montreal in 1971 to Italian immigrant mother and father, entered the Grand Séminaire de Montréal in 1990 and was ordained a priest for service to town’s archdiocese in 1996.
