Holy See postpones Nicaraguan bishops’ ad limina visit

The president of the Nicaraguan Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez, announced that the Holy See has postponed the ad limina visit of the Central American country’s bishops, citing a lack of “appropriate conditions” for the Nicaraguan prelates.

“The Holy See has postponed it until next year with no specific date set as of yet because the appropriate conditions do not exist for the bishops who are members of the episcopal conference,” explained the prelate, who also serves as the bishop of Jinotega, in a statement to EWTN News Español, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News.

The “ad limina apostolorum” visit (“to the threshold of the apostles”) is a visit made to the Vatican by bishops from around the world, organized by country and occurring every five years to report to the various dicasteries on the situation in their respective dioceses. These visits conclude with an audience with the pope, who recently met separately with the bishops from Honduras and Panama.

Herrera, who has been in exile since November 2024 after being expelled by the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, in…