The Pope accepted the resignation submitted by the Bishop of El Obeid, in Sudan, after he reached the age of retirement.
The Vatican announced on Monday that Pope Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of El Obeid, Sudan, presented by Bishop Macram Max Gassis, upon having reached the age limit imposed by the law of the Church.
Catholic bishops have to tend a letter of resignation when they reach 75 years of age.
Bishop Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria, 54, is the new bishop of El Obeid.
Bishop Macram was born in Khartoum on September 21, 1938 and became a Comboni Missionary on September 9, 1957. He was ordained priest on June 28, 1964, and bishop on May 15, 1988.
Bishop Macram was appointed Apostolic Administrator of El Obeid 1983, succeeding to Bishop Paolino Lukudu Loro, and bishop in 1988.
After he denounced at the UN atrocities committed by the regime of Omar Al Bashir he lived in self-imposed exile in Nairobi.
Bishop Didi was born in Nuba Mountains in 1959. He was ordained priest in 1992 and appointed coadjutor bishop of El Obeid in May 29, 2010, being ordained bishop on August 15, 2010.
He is the and forth bishop of El Obeid.