Pope Leo XIV appoints Evelio Menjivar-Ayala as bishop of West Virginia
Pope Leo XIV announced the appointment of Most Rev. Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, 55, an auxiliary bishop in Washington, D.C., as the new leader of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia. Menjivar-Ayala is an El Salvador-born priest who fled civil war as a teenager and entered the United States as an undocumented immigrant in 1990 before gaining legal status. He has publicly opposed Trump administration immigration policies while affirming a nation's right to control its borders.
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