VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) replaced Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati as archbishop of Santiago, Chile after he was placed under criminal investigation in the country’s spiraling church sex abuse and cover-up scandal.

Francis accepted Ezzati’s resignation and named a temporary replacement to govern Chile’s most important archdiocese: The Spanish-born Capuchin friar and current bishop of Copiapo, Chile Monsignor Celestino Aos Braco.

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