WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has appointed Nicaraguan-born Father Pedro Bismarck Chau, rector of the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, New Jersey, as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark.
At the same time, the pope accepted the resignation of Newark Auxiliary Bishop Gregory J. Studerus, who is 77.
The appointment and resignation were announced in Washington May 30 by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.
Bishop-designate Chau, a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, was born July 18, 1964, in Managua, Nicaragua. He received a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2004 and a master’s degree in professional counseling in 2021 from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. He studied at Immaculate Conception Seminary in South Orange and was ordained to the priesthood May 24, 2008.
He will join Auxiliary Bishops Manuel A. Cruz, Michael A Saporito and Elias R. Lorenzo in ministering to the faithful with Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin.
The 500-square-mile Archdiocese of Newark has a Catholic population of over 1 million out of a total population of 3.1 million.
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