evidence: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Angelo Scola as archbishop of Milan and appointed Bishop Mario Delpini, 66, a man of spartan habits who rides a bicycle and lives with elderly priests, as his successor. [...] Cardinal Scola, the runner up to Francis in the 2013 conclave, handed in his resignation last November, on reaching the age of 75. He said then that he did not wish to continue as archbishop of Italy’s largest diocese—one of the biggest in the world with over 5 million Catholics. [...] Born in Gallarate, a city of 50,000 people in the Milan metropolitan area, in 1951, the new archbishop entered the diocesan seminary and was ordained in 1975 by Cardinal Giovanni Colombo. After graduating from the Catholic University of Milan, he obtained a degree in patristic sciences from the Augustinian Patristic Institute in Rome. He subsequently held different roles as a professor at the diocesan seminary in Venegono, head of the high school, and was appointed rector of the major seminary by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S.J., a role he served in from 2000 to 2006.