Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Ryan P. Jimenez of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa as the new archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Agaña, Guam. The appointment was officially published last July 6.
The archbishop-elect said he has mixed feelings after learning of his new appointment. “You know, our lives as priests as bishops, we go where God sends us and so that capacity to kind of just be open and not cling on and it’s difficult because we’re human beings as well. We get attached to people with friends and I considered a lot of people as family, so it’s mixed but I also feel a deep sense of peace, in the sense that I’m not really in charge, God is I just have to be able to allow him to take control and be able to respond freely, what would this mean, what would be the things that I need to do and take it one day at a time,” he said after the 5th Joint Memorial Service yesterday at Aqua Resort Club.
He said he will miss a lot of things on Saipan. “The people, the food, Mañagaha. My kind of like stress reliever, is just go to Mañagaha.
I love snorkeling. I used to bike. I didn’t have much time [to bike recently], but I will surely miss the beauty of the island,” he said.
His message to the Catholic faithful of Saipan now that he will be relocating 131 miles south to Guam, “Gratitude and know that while we wait for whoever would be the next bishop of Chalan Kanoa, that God will not abandon us. God continues to take care of us and we have to hav.
