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Haiti Nuncio Named
for Cuba Post
Zenit,
The World Seen From Rome, March 30, 2004.
VATICAN CITY, MARCH 30, 2004 (Zenit.org).-
John Paul II has appointed Archbishop Luigi
Bonazzi the new apostolic nuncio in Cuba,
three months after his first appointee to
the post was slain before leaving Burundi.
Archbishop Bonazzi, 55, until now has been
apostolic nuncio in Haiti, said Father Ciro
Benedettini, deputy director of the Vatican
press office, in an announcement today.
The Pope originally appointed Archbishop
Michael Courtney to the Cuba post. The Irish-born
prelate was killed on Dec. 29 as he concluded
his mission as apostolic nuncio in the central
African nation of Burundi.
Luigi Bonazzi was born in Gazzaniga, Italy.
He was ordained a priest in 1973 and received
episcopal ordination on Aug. 26, 1999, after
being named papal representative in Haiti.
The last apostolic nuncio in Cuba was Mexican
Archbishop Luis Robles Díaz, who
was appointed vice president of the Holy
See's Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
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