THE FUTURE OF A PAPAL SECRETARY….
According to an article appearing today in America magazine online, the Holy Father told an Argentinean journalist this week that, “Pope Francis wants to visit Argentina, his homeland, in 2024. He also revealed that he has told Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the private secretary of the late Pope Benedict XVI, that he has to leave his Vatican apartment in the coming months.”
“In this context, Francis revealed that he had told Benedict’s private secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, that he has to decide whether he wishes to remain in Italy or to return to Germany but said that, in any case, he would have to leave his Vatican apartment in a couple of months. Mr. Morales Solá reported that, “Francis reminded [Archbishop] Gänswein that all the private secretaries of the popes had returned to their [home] dioceses when the pope died,” and he cited the case of John Paul II’s private secretary, Stanislaw Dziwisz, then archbishop, who returned to Krakow after the death of the Polish pope.” Pope Francis plans to visit Argentina in 2024 and says Archbishop Gänswein must leave the Vatican | America Magazine
I did some quick research on what happened to the private secretaries of Popes (of my lifetime):
By the way, today is the feast day of St. George and Benedict’s secretary is Abp. Georg Gaenswein.
JOHN XXIII. His secretary, Msgr. Loris Capovilla, after John XXIII’s death on June 3, 1963, stayed in the Vatican for four more years in the service of (St.) Paul VI. He was then appointed Archbishop of Chieti in 1967, and in 1971 prelate of the Pontifical Shrine of Loreto.
PAUL VI: Msgr. Pasquale Macchi: After Paul’s death in Castelgandolfo on August 6, 1978, Macchi became the archpriest of the shrine of Monte Sacro di Varese. On December 10, 1988, he was appointed to the Territorial Prelature of Loreto by Pope John Paul II and was consecrated a bishop by Pope John Paul II on January 6, 1989.
PAUL VI: Msgr. John Magee, also a secretary to Paul VI, after Paul’s death, became secretary to Popes John Paul I and John Paul II.
JOHN PAUL II. After John Paul’s death on April 2, 2005, his secretary Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz (the Pope had made him a bishop in September 2003), according to rules created by John Paul, packed his belongings and vacated the papal apartments before they were sealed by the Camerlengo. On June 3, 2005 Benedict XVI appointed Dziwisz Metropolitan Archbishop of Krakow, Poland. At the March 24, 2006 consistory, Dziwisz was raised to the rank of cardinal.
Joan's Rome 