Pope Francis Names Dallas’ Bishop Kelly as Bishop Strickland’s Successor in Tyler, Texas, by Michael Haynes, & Andreas Wailzer

By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent and Andreas Wailzer, LifeSiteNews, Dec 20, 2024 

John Gregory Kelly, the new bishop of Tyler, Texas, was among the 68 bishops who wanted to delay the vote by U.S. bishops on denying pro-abortion Catholics Holy Communion back in 2021. He also appears to share Pope Francis’ pro-immigration stance.

TYLER, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis announced Bishop John Gregory Kelly of Dallas as the new bishop of the Diocese of Tyler on Friday, over one year since the Pope removed Bishop Joseph Strickland from the Texas see.

Via the daily Holy See press bulletin, the Pope’s new choice for the Diocese of Tyler was finally revealed. Bishop John Gregory Kelly will now lead the diocese, after having been an auxiliary in the Diocese of Dallas since early 2016.

Appointed a bishop by Francis in 2015, Kelly will now lead the diocese of Tyler which has been without its own diocesan bishop in place since Pope Francis summarily removed Strickland on November 11, 2023.

The Vatican statement at the time read that “The Holy Father has relieved from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler (U.S.A.) H.E. Msgr. Joseph E. Strickland and appointed the Bishop of Austin, H.E. Msgr. Joe Vásquez, [Bishop of Austin] as the Apostolic Administrator of the vacated diocese.” …

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