Pope Leo XIV Names Another Pro-LGBT Bishop to Lead New Jersey Diocese

Cardinal Tobin ordained him. Right-wing Church Militant attacked him. Now Michael Saporito, who hosted gay Catholics at his Maplewood parish, gets 670,000 Catholics in central New Jersey.

Bishop Michael Saporito in Newark on June 30, 2020, the day Cardinal Joseph Tobin ordained him an auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese. He served under Tobin for six years before Pope Leo XIV named him bishop of Metuchen on Sept. 15, 2026.

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