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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Luca Bovio, IMC, as director of the national direction of the newly established Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Ukraine on March 25, 2025, for the five-year period 2025-2030.
Born in Milan on October 19, 1970, Father Bovio experienced missionary volunteering as a lay person in Tanzania before joining the Consolata Missionaries in 1996. He completed his philosophical studies at the Interdiocesan Theological Study of Fossano, affiliated with the Faculty of Theology of Northern Italy (1998-2000), and his theological studies at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome (2001-2004). He was ordained a priest in Milan in 2006. He obtained a degree in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (2005-2007). In 2008, together with two confreres, he founded the first community of Consolata Missionaries in Poland.
Since 2012, he has served as National Secretary of the Pontifical Missionary Union within the Polish PMS, playing a key role in organizing missionary congresses and in the formation of local clergy. He has been responsible for the Kielpino community since 2013 and has also been the Province's Delegate to the Conference of Major Superiors of Poland.
In 2019, he obtained his doctorate in Missiology at the University named after Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in Warsaw. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Father Bovio has visited the country many times, providing humanitarian support to several dioceses and strengthening his ties with the local Church. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 14/5/2025)
