Pope Leo XIV greets a bishop and a cardinal, on the day he holds a general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, September 10, 2025. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo named a relatively unknown Italian cleric on Friday to lead the Vatican office responsible for selecting Catholic bishops around the world, in the first major appointment of the pontiff's nearly five-month tenure.
Archbishop Filippo Iannone, 67, has largely led a behind-the-scenes career in Church law. He will take charge of the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops, which advises the pope on the priests in the 1.4-billion-member Church who should be bishops.
