The Most Revd. Michael Cuozzo, OCR, OFE, DD, STD, PhD, MA, has been appointed as Provincial of the West, USA, and Titular Archbishop of Epiphania in the Apostolic Episcopal Church, and as a Deputy to the Primate, and further in the Catholicate of the West as Patriarch of Malaga and Exarch for the USA. Archbishop Michael will be designated as Mar Francis.

He is Primate and Presiding Archbishop of the Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist (O.F.E.), a chartered religious order of the AEC incorporated in California that affirms its identity and unity as a Roman Catholic autocephalous body and takes particular inspiration from the life and example of Pope Francis.