Austrian bishop names female vicar
February 27, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Bishop Josef Marketz has named theologian Barbara Velik-Frank to the newly created post of “episcopal vicaress for synodality and Church development.”
Although canon law requires that a vicar must be a priest, Bishop Marketz says that the new title of “vicaress,” along with the creation of a new role in promoting synodality, are “concrete realizations of the strengthening of the laity, and women in particular, called for by Pope Francis.”
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