The Most Rev. Joseph E. Strickland, Bishop of Tyler, prepares communion during the Red Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tyler, Texas, on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. The mass is held to celebrate the legal community at the beginning of the judicial year. (Chelsea Purgahn/Tyler Morning Telegraph)

A statement from a Catholic cardinal out of Houston has revealed that a visitation by two bishops in June found the continuation of now-dismissed Diocese of Tyler Bishop Joseph Strickland’s leadership to be “not feasible.”

Strickland was removed as the bishop of Tyler on Saturday by Pope Francis.

According to a statement from Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Pope Francis in June directed an Apostolic Visitation of the Diocese of Tyler. Bishop Dennis Sullivan of Camden and Bishop Emeritus Gerald Kicanas of Tucson were appointed to conduct the visitation.

Following an extensive inquiry into “all aspects of the governance and leadership of the Diocese of Tyler” by Strickland, a recommendation was made to the pope that Strickland continuing to lead pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler “was not feasible,” according to DiNardo. 

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