Birth name Edward Joseph Adams Predecessor Luigi Gatti Nationality American Ordination May 16, 1970 | Denomination Roman Catholic Appointed February 22, 2011 Name Edward Adams | |
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Consecration 23 October 1996by Angelo Cardinal Sodano; Co-consecrators:Anthony Joseph Cardinal Bevilacqua, John Patrick Cardinal Foley Similar Charles John Brown, Gabriele Giordano Caccia, Fernando Filoni | ||
Archbishop edward joseph adams apostolic nuncio
Edward Joseph Adams (born 24 August 1944) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has served as Apostolic Nuncio to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 8 April 2017.
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- Archbishop edward joseph adams apostolic nuncio
- Early life education ordination
- Assignments Diplomatic Corps of the Holy See
- Honour and Award
- References
Early life, education, ordination
Archbishop Adams was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), on 24 August 1944. After his elementary education in Catholic grammar schools, he attended St. Joseph’s Preparatory School, Villanova University, and Philadelphia’s St. Charles Theological Seminary. He was ordained a priest on 16 May 1970 by John Joseph Cardinal Krol, the Archbishop of Philadelphia.
After being assigned to advanced studies in Rome, he graduated, in 1976, from the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Since then, he served at the Holy See's Apostolic Nunciatures in various countries throughout the world.
Assignments, Diplomatic Corps of the Holy See
Adams was designated Apostolic Nuncio to Bangladesh and Titular Archbishop of Scala on 24 August 1996, and was consecrated on 23 October of that year by Angelo Cardinal Sodano, the Papal Secretary of State. His principal co-consecrators were Anthony Joseph Cardinal Bevilacqua and John Patrick Cardinal Foley.
After six years as Papal Representative in Bangladesh, Adams was named Nuncio to Zimbabwe on 22 August 2002 and, after serving five years in that country, on 3 September 2007, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, the 16th Papal Nuncio to the Country.
On 22 February 2011, he received a new mandate as the Pope's Envoy to Greece and, on 8 April 2017, he replaced Archbishop Antonio Mennini as Apostolic Nuncio to the United Kingdom. Archbishop Adams was received by Queen Elizabeth II, in Buckingham Palace, on 8 June 2017, during which the Papal Representative presented the Letters of Recall of his predecessor and his own Letters of Credence as Apostolic Nuncio from the Holy See to the Court of St. James's.