Overview
- The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith accepted a complaint this summer and ordered a preliminary investigation.
- The Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta issued a communiqué denying the allegations and said Zornoza has suspended his public agenda to receive treatment for an aggressive cancer.
- The complainant alleges repeated sexual contact and manipulation from age 14 to 21 while Zornoza led the Getafe seminary, including claimed use of confessional authority and so‑called conversion therapy.
- Diocesan officials said the case was introduced last week to the Tribunal of the Rota at the Apostolic Nunciature in Spain rather than being handled by the metropolitan archdiocese.
- Reporting notes this is the first publicly known case in Spain of a bishop under Vatican investigation for alleged pederasty, with declarations now being taken in a process that could lead to a trial in Rome.