Leo XIV Appoints Bishop Monteiro: Favours Female Ordination, Refers to Protestants as Role Model
Today, Pope Leo XIV has appointed Rev Yohanes Hans Monteiro, 54, as Bishop of Larantuka, Indonesia.
He was ordained a priest on July 14, 1999. The article's picture shows him in 2024 celebrating 25 years as priest.
Rev Monteiro completed a doctorate in 2018 in liturgy at the anti-Catholic University of Vienna, Austria.
"No Harm If Women Are Ordained"
In 2024, Monsignor Monteiro wrote together with a certain Fransiska Widyawati a 16 page study entitled “Paus Fransiskus dan Kepemimpinan Perempuan dalam Gereja Katolik” (Pope Francis and women’s leadership in the Catholic Church). He acknowledges that "current" teaching "definitively" reserves priestly ordination to baptized males. But then he argues in favour of female ordination. His main quotes:
- "The Catholic Church is often considered far behind, especially when compared to other Christian churches."
- "When the neighboring churches have …