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On 15 November 2021 Pope Francis appointed Monsignor Gobezayehu Getachew Yilma as Apostolic Vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Awasa. He will replace Father Juan Antonio González Núñez, a Comboni Missionary and native of Spain , who has been the Apostolic Administrator for the Vicariate between 2020 and 2024 and who turned 80 years old on ...
Appointed vicar apostolic on 15 March 1623 and consecrated titular bishop on 4 June 1623. Died in office on 13 April 1624. 1624: 1632: Richard Smith, Titular Bishop of Chalcedon: Appointed vicar apostolic on 29 November 1624 and consecrated titular bishop on 12 June 1625. Resigned in 1632 and died on 18 March 1655. 1632: 1685: Vacant [8] 1685: ...
On 19 November 1982, he was appointed coadjutor vicar apostolic of Vientiane, Laos, and also titular bishop of Moglaena, by Pope John Paul II, and he subsequently was installed on 7 April 1984. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He served as well as administrator of the Luang Prabang vicariate from 1984 to 1999.
An apostolic vicariate is led by a vicar apostolic, who is usually a titular bishop. While such a territory can be classed as a particular church , according to canon 371.1 of the Latin Code of Canon Law , a vicar apostolic's jurisdiction is an exercise of the jurisdiction of the pope —the territory comes directly under the pope as "universal ...
The current vicar apostolic is Paolo Martinelli. [7] It was first established in 1888 (as the Apostolic Vicariate of Aden) and took its current name in 2011. The see of the vicar apostolic is in Saint Joseph's Cathedral in Abu Dhabi. Since 1916, it has been in the care of the Capuchins of Florence.
Hanna Jallouf OFM (born July 16, 1952 ) is a Syrian Catholic titular bishop.He has been the Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo since 2023. As the vicar, he is the head of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo, which is part of the Latin Church and distinct from the Eastern Catholic Churches in Syria, and leader of the Latin Catholics throughout Syria.
Due to this, in 1974 the see of the Apostolic Vicar was transferred from Proto-Cathedra St. Francis of Assisi Church, Aden, Yemen to St, Joseph's Church, Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates. Msgr. Giovanni Bernardo Gremoli, OFM Cap. was appointed as Apostolic Vicar in 1975. His most urgent task was fulfilling the need of clerical personnel in ...
Richard Smith (November 1568 – 18 March 1655) was an English Catholic prelate who served as Vicar Apostolic of English from 1624 to 1632. Having studied at the English College in Rome, he taught at Valladolid and Seville .