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Pope Francis on May 17 named a new bishop for Hong Kong, tapping the head of his own Jesuit or­der in the region, P. Stephen Chow Sau-yan, for the politically sensitive position that has been vacant for two years.

Chow, a native of Hong Kong, was educated in the United States and Ireland. He headed two Jesuit-run schools while also teaching at the University of Hong Kong before being made provincial of the Jesuits in the China region in 2018.

He replaces the late Bishop Michael Yeung Ming-cheung, who died in 2019.

Lenny Duncan, a queer, Black pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is joining Pacific Lutheran The­ological Sem­i­nary as a public theologian to help de­velop a two-year certification program.

In a statement to the Century, Dun­can said he was humbled by the opportunity to help prepare people “for a world beyond the institutional church.”