• 22 Dec, 2024

Regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary, Fr. Krzysztof Nykiel, was ordained a Bishop in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on June 22, with Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, retired Major Penitentiary of the Holy See, as the principal consecrator.

A vocation is a call always to have the Lord's gaze - attentive to every brother and sister. "It is a look that you were able to learn well during your years of service in the Apostolic Penitentiary and that you will now be able to support it with the grace of state proper to the sacrament of ordination granted to you in full today," Cardinal Mauro Piacenza said in his homily, addressing Fr. Christopher Nykiel, who was ordained a Bishop in St. Peter's Basilica on June 22. The motto of Bishop Nykel is "Patris Corde" ("With a Fatherly Heart"). It refers to Pope Francis' Apostolic Letter for the 150th anniversary of the declaration of St. Joseph as the patron saint of the Universal Church. "For you, I am a Bishop; with you, I am a Christian" Cardinal Piacenza pointed out that episcopal consecration is "implanted in the ordination to the priesthood and diaconate but above all in the gratuitous gift of Holy Baptism."

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