Appointment of apostolic nuncio in Togo
Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Gdańsk, Poland
Appointment of bishop of Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, U.S.A.
Appointment of apostolic nuncio in Togo
The Holy Father has appointed Archbishop Mark Gerard Miles, titular-elect of Città Ducale and apostolic nuncio in Benin, as apostolic nuncio in Togo.
Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Gdańsk, Poland
The Holy Father has appointed Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda, S.A.C., as metropolitan archbishop of Gdańsk, Poland, transferring him from the metropolitan see of Białystok.
Curriculum vitae
Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda was born on 29 January 1957 in Kowala, in the diocese of Kielce.
After his high school exams he entered the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottini), and after completing his philosophical and theological studies at the major seminary of Ołtarzew, he received priestly ordination on 8 May 1983.
He subsequently served as parish vicar and head of the missionary animation of young people in the Secretariat for Missions of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (1983-1984). In 1986 he was awarded a licentiate and in 1989 a doctorate in missiology from the Pontifical Gregorian University. On 1 January 1990 he began work at the Pontifical Mission Societies and in 1991, at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. From 1991 until his episcopal appointment he served as Chaplain of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo in Rome and from 1996 to the present at the Motor Education Centre of the Italian Red Cross. In 2012 he was appointed as under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.
On 12 April 2017 he was appointed as metropolitan archbishop of Białystok, and received episcopal consecration on the following 10 June.
Within the Episcopal Conference he has served as a member of the Commission for Missions and member of the Concordat Commission.
Besides Polish, he knows Italian, French and English.
Appointment of bishop of Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, U.S.A.
The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, United States of America, Msgr. Jerome Feudjio, of the clergy of the same diocese, until now vicar general and rector of the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral.
Curriculum vitae
Msgr. Jerome Feudjio was born on 30 September 1955 in Fonakeukeu, Cameroon. He began his ecclesiastical studies at the Holy Apostles Seminary in Otélé (1972-1975) and at the Major Seminary of Nkolbisson in Yaoundé (1975-1979). In the United States he carried out his ecclesiastical studies as member of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate at the Washington Theological Consortium, District of Columbia.
He was ordained a priest on 29 September 1990 for the diocese of Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, United States of America.
After priestly ordination he held the following offices: parish vicar (1990-1997), administrator (1997-2000) and rector of the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral (2000-2001), head of diocesan finance (1996-2004), director of vocations (1996-2020), vicar for the clergy (since 2001), chancellor (2002-2004), and parish priest of the Holy Family parish (2004-2008). From 2008 until the present he has served again as rector of the Cathedral, vicar general, and moderator of the Curia. In addition, he has been a member of Catholic Charities, the Diocesan Finance Council and the College of Consultors.
