with the backing of the Congregation for Bishops, appointed an apostolic visitor, Archbishop Antonio Arregui Yarza of Guayaquil in Ecuador, to conduct an investigation, which he began on October 25. Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, was eventually identified as Gonzalez' "principal and most insistent accuser". Since becoming apostolic delegate to Puerto Rico in 2008, he had clashed repeatedly with González, particularly disturbed, according to La Stampa, by González' Puerto Rican advocacy. He submitted confidential reports that included claims González had mishandled cases of priests accused of sexual abuse and sold Catholic school property without authorization. González indicated he would contest, in particular, any claim that he had not properly dealt with charges of sexual abuse on the part of priests. As González awaited the results of the investigation, the bishops of Puerto Rico demonstrated their confidence in him by electing him the president of their conference in December 2012. That same month he refused when pressured to resign by Vatican officials, responding instead with a lengthy rebuttal in February 2023. When details of the standoff became public, almost a hundred Catholic organizations formed a coalition to demonstrate their solidarity with González. The Vatican cleared González of all the charges against him in June 2013. In August, Wesolowski was removed as apostolic delegate and the failure of the Vatican to credit his claims against González was thought to explain his departure. Wesolowski was in fact removed because he was suspected of sexually abusing minors. After a canonical trial he was laicized in June 2014. Altar of the Homeland In 2013, he succeeded in arranging for the remains of Puerto Rican "founding father" Ramón Power y Giralt (1775–1813) to be transferred from Spain to Puerto Rico. He worked with the Bishop of Cádiz and Ceuta to accomplish this project which had long been frustrated by political infighting and bureaucratic hurdles, despite the fact that Power is recognized as a hero by all of Puerto Rico's political factions. González had prepared a mausoleum chapel alongside the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista to receive the remains of Power and of Juan Alejo de Arizmendi, the first Puerto Rican bishop of San Juan, but in December 2022 Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Holy See's Secretary of State, had ordered González not to proceed with the internments and to stop calling the chapel, which Gonzalez inaugurated in 2011, the altar de la patria. Power's remains arrived in San Juan