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Resignations and Appointments, 09.08.2017

Resignation of bishop of Gaborone, Botswana, and appointment of apostolic administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis

Appointment of eparchial bishop of Saint Peter Apostle of San Diego of the Chaldeans, United States of America

Appointment of apostolic administrator sede vacante of the eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans, Canada

 

 

Resignation of bishop of Gaborone, Botswana, and appointment of apostolic administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis

The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Gaborone, Botswana, presented by H.E. Msgr. Valentine Tsamma Seane. He has appointed H.E. Msgr. Frank Nubuasah, S.V.D., currently apostolic vicar of Francistown, as apostolic administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of Gaborone.

 

Appointment of eparchial bishop of Saint Peter Apostle of San Diego of the Chaldeans, United States of America

The Pope has appointed as eparchial bishop of Saint Peter Apostle of San Diego of the Chaldeans, United States of America, H.E. Msgr. Emanuel Hana Shaleta, transferring him from the eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans, Canada.

H.E. Msgr. Emanuel Hana Shaleta

H.E. Msgr. Emanuel Hana Shaleta was born in Fishkabour-Zakho, Iraq, on 12 November 1956.

Following his primary studies in his village, in 1971 he entered the “St. John” minor seminary run by the Dominican Fathers, near Mosul.

In 1977 he was sent to the Pontifical Urbanian University, where he carried out his studies in philosophy and theology.

He was ordained a priest by Pope St. John Paul II on 31 May 1984.

He continued his studies in the faculty of theology of the Urbanian University and obtained a doctorate in biblical theology in 1987.

He transferred to the United States of America, in the Chaldean eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit, where from 1987 to 2000 he served in the parish of St. Paul, North Hollywood, California; from 2000 to 2002 he was deputy priest of St. Joseph, Troy, Michigan; then, until 2006, he was pastor of the same parish and then parish priest of St. George in Township, Michigan, until 2015.

In 2009, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his priestly ordination, he received the title of chorbishop.

On 15 January 2015, the Holy Father Francis appointed him as bishop of the eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans, Canada, and he was ordained on 6 February 2015.

He speaks Chaldean, Arabic, Italian and English, and knows Assyrian, Kurdish, French, German, and among the ancient languages, Latin, Hebrew and Greek.

 

Appointment of apostolic administrator sede vacante of the eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans, Canada

The Pope has appointed as apostolic administrator sede vacante of the eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto of the Chaldeans, Canada, H.E. Msgr. Frank Kalabat, eparchial bishop of Saint Thomas of Detroit of the Chaldeans, United States of America.