The Vatican made an announcement on October 22nd that Pope Francis has accepted the renunciation of the appointment as cardinal of Msgr. Paskalis Bruno Syukur, bishop of Bogor, one of the 21 new cardinals who were announced on October 6th and to be created in the next consistory on the 7-8th of September.
Bishops' Conference president Antonio Subianto Bunjamin wrote: “Bishop Paskalis knows what is best for him, for the diocese and for the Church”.
‘His Excellency's request is motivated by his desire to grow further in his priestly life, in his service to the Church and to the people of God,’ the director of the Vatican Press Office, Matteo Bruni, wrote in the note.
Bishop Suykur, a 62-year-old Franciscan friar minor, has led the Bogor diocese since 2013 and is also secretary of the Indonesian Bishops' Conference. He would have become the first cardinal from Flores, the island that is considered the center of Indonesian Catholicism. From Rome, where he is attending the Synod, the president of the Indonesian Bishops' Conference, Bishop Antonius Subianto Bunjamin of Bandung, said he was shaken by the news of his renunciation. But he quickly added: ‘We appreciate Mgr Paskalis’ decision. Surely he knows what is best for him, for his diocese and for the Church in general. Let us pray'.
There are three cardinals in the history of the Indonesian Catholic Church: the first was Justinus Darmojuwono, archbishop of Semarang, who received the purple from Paul VI in 1967 and died in 1994. The other two are both living: Card. Julius Darmaatmadja, Archbishop Emeritus of Jakarta, now 90 years old, who was created Cardinal by John Paul II in 1994, and Card. Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, the current archbishop of the capital, who was awarded the title by Pope Francis in 2019.Edited from Asia News It and Vatican News
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