POPE FRANCIS APPOINTS MOST REV. HENRYK MIECZYSLAW JAGODZINSKI, AS APOSTOLIC NUNCIO TO SOUTH AFRICA AND LESOTHO

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On 16 April 2024, Pope Francis appointed Most Rev. Henryk Jagodziński as Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa and Lesotho. Most Rev. Henryk Jagodziński was born in Małogoszcz, Poland, on 1 January 1969. He attended the Higher Theological Seminary in Kielce and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Kielce on 3 June 1995 at the age of 26 by Bishop Kazimierz Ryczan. After doing two years of  parish work in Busko-Zdrój he went to Rome to further his studies earning a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. He also studied at the Vatican training institute for diplomats, the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.

His diplomatic service of the Holy See began on 1 July 2001. Some of his  assignments included stints in the offices representing the Holy See in Belarus from 2001 to 2005, Croatia from 2005 to 2008, in the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State in Rome, and in India from 2015 to 2018, and Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2018 to 2020.

On 3 May 2020 at the age of 51 years, Pope Francis appointed him titular archbishop of Limosano and Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana a portfolio he has held till his appoint to South Africa and Lesotho.

He is also the author of scholarly articles that have appeared in Kieleckie Studia Teologiczne (Kielce Theological Studies). Among his works is a personal testament: Wiara kapłana (A Priest’s Faith) (2014).

Congratulation once again.