Some of the Nicaraguan clergy expelled to Rome in January are to be resettled in Spain and Costa Rica. After months of silence one of the bishops expelled, Isodoro Moro, bishop of Siuna, is to join the diocese of Granada in Spain.
Also to be based in Granada are Fr Héctor Treminio, former treasurer of the diocese of Managua, and Fr Marcos Díaz, who was vicar general of the diocese of León.
Bishop Moro took part in the chrism mass in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela alongside the archbishop of Granada, José María Gil Tamayo. Mgr Gil Tamayo said: “They have really suffered, and are suffering, from being expelled. We shall do what we can to help. We are now their fellow priests.”
The Costa Rican diocese of Ciudad Quesada has said that a senior priest from the diocese of Managua, Mgr Miguel Mántica, has been appointed to one of its parishes. There is no news of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, bishop of Matagalpa and the most prominent of the clerical critics of the Nicaraguan government.
Sources say that the priests resident in Italy have been told not to make public statements. In the diocese of Managua, the most affected by the deportation of its priests, the archbishop, Leopoldo Brenes, appointed priests to fill some of the vacant positions in February, but they tend to be younger and less experienced.
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