Just going way out on a limb here, of course, but I would bet my left arm up to the elbow that Bp Lopes got "an offer he can't refuse" from either Parolin or the Apostolic Nuncio, Abp Christoph Pierre. Just a guess of course.
"Nice little Ordinariate you got here. Be a shame if anything was to...uh...'happen' to it."
24 posted on 07/08/2019 4:23:34 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
("For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God." - 1 Peter 4:17)