{"id":64395,"date":"2025-12-18T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64395\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:30:10","slug":"diocese-of-eries-bishop-submits-letter-of-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64395\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Erie\u2019s bishop submits letter of resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WKBN) \u2013 The Diocese of Erie\u2019s bishop submitted his letter of resignation after celebrating his 75th birthday in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bishop Lawrence T. Persico will continue to serve until Pope Leo XIV appoints his successor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTurning 75 gives every bishop an opportunity for deep reflection,\u201d Bishop Persico said in a statement from the Diocese. \u201cI am grateful for the privilege of serving the people of this diocese for the past 13 years. As we enter this time of transition, I ask the faithful to join me in praying for the one whom the Holy Father will send. May the Holy Spirit guide Pope Leo in choosing a shepherd who will lead with wisdom, compassion and a true heart for Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A search for a new bishop will happen behind the scenes. According to the Diocese, the papal nuncio (Pope\u2019s diplomatic representative) will gather input and prepare recommendations, which will be considered at the Vatican during a \u201cprayer-centered process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An installation ceremony will be held after a bishop is chosen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbn.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WKBN.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WKBN.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WKBN) \u2013 The Diocese of Erie\u2019s bishop submitted his letter of resignation after celebrating his 75th birthday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11678,34314,34315,136,138,137,34318,34317,34316],"class_list":{"0":"post-64395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-bishop","9":"tag-bishop-persico","10":"tag-diocese","11":"tag-erie","12":"tag-erie-headlines","13":"tag-erie-news","14":"tag-lawrence-t-persico","15":"tag-letter-of-resignation","16":"tag-pope-leo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}