<p>ROME — U.S. President Joseph Biden has a new bishop.</p>
<p>Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of Wilmington, Delaware Bishop Francis Malooly, who at 77 is two years beyond the normal retirement age for bishops.</p>
<p>Francis appointed the current vicar for clergy in the Rockville Center, New York diocese, Monsignor William Koening, to replace Malooly.</p>
<p>Koening, 64, a Queens native, was ordained a bishop in Rockville Center in 1983 and held a series of parish and diocesan positions before being put in charge of the diocese’s clergy last year.</p>
<p>Biden, the second Catholic president of the United States, worships both at his home in Wilmington and in Washington. </p>
<p>Both Malooly and the archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, have made clear that Biden is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-government-and-politics-religion-22e0d1ba299fe8693013036e3cc85c81">welcome to receive Communion </a> at churches they oversee despite his support for abortion rights.</p>
