President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met with the new president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA), Monsignor José María Arancedo.
The Head of State decided to meet with the Santa Fe province archibishop after he was named as the new Episcopate leader on Tuesday for a three year term, replacing Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio.
Arancedo arrived at the Government House driving a Citroen C3 car at a 6.15 pm, but Fernández de Kirchner remained more time than expected in the Olivos presidential residence and only arrived to the Government House after 7.30 pm.
During the 102nd CEA assembly, which took place in the Cenáculo complex in the Greater Buenos Aires area of Pilar, the 84 bishops with right to vote chose Arancedo as president, with Neuquén archibishop Virginio Bressanelli as first Vice-president and Salta province archibishop Mario Cargnello as second Vice-president.
Seventy one year old Arancedo, a first cousin of late former president Raúl Alfonsín, per the Government’s viewpoint, has a more «moderate» political management than Bergoglio, who left his post after six years and a little over a month before presenting his retirement as Buenos Archibishop on his 75th birthday.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald