BREAKING NEWS: VATICAN APPOINTS NEW APOSTOLIC NUNCIO FOR NIGERIA

BREAKING NEWS: VATICAN APPOINTS NEW APOSTOLIC NUNCIO FOR NIGERIA
NEWS THEME: MOST REV. MICHAEL F. CROTTY APPOINTED APOSTOLIC NUNCIO TO NIGERIA
Following the official announcement of the Vatican Archbishop Michael F. Crotty has appointed as the new apostolic Nuncio, to Nigeria. The Nuncio, an equivalent of an ambassador, is a diplomatic title given to those who are in charge the Holy See’s foreign relations with states in different nations.
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Archbishop Crotty will be the first Irish clergy to serve as a Nuncio in Nigeria, a country that religiously has long historical ties with the Republic of Ireland. Ireland stood out for her evangelising and missionary activities especially in Eastern Nigeria where the Kiltegan Fathers built schools and hospitals as part of their evangelising missions.
Archbishop Michael F. Crotty, a native of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, Ireland, was born on 26 March 1970. On 3 July 1994 he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Cloyne (Ireland). After his priestly ordination he continued postgraduate studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he obtained Licentiates in Ecclesiastical History and Canon Law and a doctorate in Ecclesiastical History.
On 1 July 2001, he entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See and was assigned to the Apostolic Nunciature in Kenya, Nairobi. He subsequently served in the Apostolic Nunciature in Canada, Ottawa (2004-2007); the Apostolic Nunciature in Iraq and Jordan, Baghdad and Amman (2007 – 2009); the Secretariat of State at the Vatican – Section for the Holy See’s Relations with States (2009-2017) and in the Apostolic Nunciature in Spain, Madrid (2017-2020).
On 1 February 2020, His Holiness Pope Francis appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso and raised him to the archiepiscopal dignity granting him the titular see of Lindisfarne. Subsequently, on 25 April 2020, he was also appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Niger. On 15 August 2020, he was ordained to the episcopate in St Colman’s Cathedral, Diocese of Cloyne, Ireland. Since September 2020 he has been serving as Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso and Niger with residence in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
In May 2023, he was appointed Special Envoy of the Holy See to attend the presidential inauguration of H.E. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Archbishop Crotty is multilingual speaking English, Gaelic, French, Italian, Spanish and German.
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