Resignation and appointment of personal ordinary of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, Australia
Appointment of apostolic nuncio in Guinea and in Mali
Resignation and appointment of personal ordinary of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, Australia
The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the personal ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, presented by Rev. Msgr. Harry Entwistle.
The Pope has appointed as personal ordinary of Our Lady of the Southern Cross the Rev. Carl Reid, currently dean of all the parishes of Canada of the personal ordinariate of The Chair of Saint Peter and parish priest of a community of the same ordinariate in British Columbia in Canada.
Father Reid, born on 14 December 1950, was baptized on January 14 1951 in the Anglican Church of Canada. He earned a bachelor’s degree in geological engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 1973. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from St. Bede’s Online Theological College. In 2006, he was given the title of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa. He was ordained a deacon in the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada in 1988, and a minister in the same jurisdiction on 23 June 1990. He was ordained a suffragan bishop of the same communion on 27 January 2007. After being received into the full communion of the Catholic Church, Father Carl Reid was ordained a priest on 26 January 2013 of the personal ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (USA).
Appointment of apostolic nuncio in Guinea and in Mali
The Pope has appointed as apostolic nuncio in Guinea and Mali the Rev. Msgr. Tymon Tytus Chmielecki, nunciature counsellor, at the same time elevating him to the titular see of Tre Taverne, with archiepiscopal dignity.
The nuncio-elect was born in Toruń, Poland in 1965, and was ordained a priest in 1991. He holds a licentiate in Utroque Iure and in humanistic sciences. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1995 and served in the papal representations in Georgia, Senegal, Austria, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Brazil and in the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State.
