Exarch of historic Byzantine abbey near Rome explains richness of Eastern Catholicism

“Catholics of the Byzantine tradition are one of the various Churches that exist in the Christian East,” explained Bishop Manuel Nin Güell, who was recently appointed by Pope Leo XIV as the new apostolic exarch of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata Monastery.The Catholic Encyclopedia explains that “in Eastern Christendom an exarch is a bishop who holds a place between that of patriarch and that of ordinary metropolitan.”In an interview with ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News, the prelate…