Pope Leo XIV appointed special envoys for 3 anniversaries of the Catholic Church in different parts of the world next October, according to the Press Office of the Press of the Vatican.
Leo XIV appointed Cardinal Dominik Duka, Archbishop Emeritus of Prague, his special envoy for the Centennial celebrations of the erection of the Archdiocese of Gdańsk (Poland), which will be held in the Oliwa Cathedral on October 14, 2025.
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Dominik Duka is an 82 -year -old Dominican. He was Archbishop of Prague in the Czech Republic between 2010 and 2022. Cardinal was created by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.
The Pope also appointed Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, Archbishop Emeritus of Durban, his special envoy for the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Archdiocese of Cape Coast, and the Archdiocese of Accra, Kumasi, Tamale and the Diocese of Keta-Akatsi (Ghana), which will be made in Cape Cope October 25, 2025.
Wilfrid Fox Napier is an 84 -year -old Franciscan. He was Archbishop of Durban in South Africa between 1992 and 2021. Cardinal was created by Pope San Juan Paul II in 2001.
And finally, the Holy Father appointed Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, Prefect of the Dicasterio for the Eastern Churches, his special envoy for the Centennial celebrations of the Diocese of Pinsk (Belarus), which will be held on October 18, 2025.
Claudio Gugerotti has worked at the service of the Holy See since 1997. He has been an apostolic nuncio in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine and Great Britain. He was created Cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.