{"id":203821,"date":"2023-09-13T01:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T05:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=203821"},"modified":"2023-09-13T08:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T12:37:38","slug":"bani-bishop-resigns-will-go-to-work-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/09\/13\/bani-bishop-resigns-will-go-to-work-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Bani bishop resigns; will go to work in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Monsen\u0303or-Victor-Masalles-Noticias-SIN-1024x678.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203864\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Monsen\u0303or-Victor-Masalles-Noticias-SIN-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Monsen\u0303or-Victor-Masalles-Noticias-SIN-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Monsen\u0303or-Victor-Masalles-Noticias-SIN-768x509.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Monsen\u0303or-Victor-Masalles-Noticias-SIN.png 1446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most outspoken priests in the Dominican Republic, 62-year old Victor Masalles announced Pope Francisco has accepted his resignation from his position as bishop in the Bani Diocese. Barcelona-born, Masalles had requested permission to be reassigned to the Diocese of Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vatican officially reported: The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Bani, Dominican Republic diocese, presented by Bishop Victor Emilio Masalles Pere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic announced that Monsignor Faustino Burgos Brisman would replace Masalles in Bani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Masalles was appointed to the Bani position in December 2016. He is a graduate in economics from Intec University in Santo Domingo where he studied before undertaking pastoral studies. He was ordained priest in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has maintained a strong and vocal stand against the passing of the three exceptions to the ban on abortions in the Penal Code revision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/en\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2023\/09\/12\/230912a.html\">Vatican <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic-hierarchy.org\/bishop\/bmasper.html\">Catholic Hierarchy<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/obispo-masalles-renuncia-de-la-diocesis-de-bani\/\">El Dia <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 September 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most outspoken priests in the Dominican Republic, 62-year old Victor Masalles announced Pope Francisco has accepted his resignation from his position as bishop in the Bani Diocese. Barcelona-born, Masalles had requested permission to be reassigned to the Diocese of Barcelona. The Vatican officially reported: The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/09\/13\/bani-bishop-resigns-will-go-to-work-in-barcelona\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203866,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203821\/revisions\/203866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}