OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 17 April 2012 appointed Rev. Fr. Bernardo Espirito, SVD (Society of the Divine Word) as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in New Zealand (valid from April 25, 2012) for the five-year period 2012-2017. The new National Director was born on May 20, 1955 in Valenzuela (Philippines). He became part of the Divine Word Missionaries in Quezon City, was ordained a priest in Tagaytay on October 24, 1981. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 29/11/2012


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