Dagoberto Campos Salas is a Costa Rican prelate of the
Catholic Church
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who works in the diplomatic service of the
Holy See
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. He is the Apostolic Nuncio to
Panama
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since 2022.
He is the first native of Costa Rica to hold the title of apostolic nuncio.
Biography
Salas was born on 14 March 1966
[ to Dimas Campos and Benilda Salas in ]Puntarenas
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, Costa Rica
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, and after the age of ten lived in Abangares and Poás as well.[ He was ordained a priest on 22 May 1994 for the Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia][ and spent the next year as chaplain in the presidential palace during the administration of President ]José María Figueres
José María Figueres Olsen (born 24 December 1954 in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican businessman and politician, who served as President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. He also ran for president in the 2022 Costa Rican general electi ...
.[
He earned a degree in canon law and studied at the ]Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
The Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy ( la, Pontificia Ecclesiastica Academia, it, Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica) is one of the Roman Colleges of the Catholic Church. The academy is dedicated to training priests to serve in the diplomatic c ...
from 1995 to 1999[ and He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 1 July 1999, filling assignments in the nunciatures in Sudan (1999-2003), Chile (2003-2006), Switzerland, Turkey and Mexico.]Pope Francis
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appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Liberia and Titular Archbishop of Forontoniana.[ Salas was ordained a bishop by Cardinal ]Pietro Parolin
Pietro Parolin OMRI (, ; born 17 January 1955) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. A cardinal since February 2014, he has served as the Vatican's Secretary of State since October 2013 and a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers sinc ...
at St. Peter's Basilica
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on 29 September 2018. He was given additional responsibilities as Nuncio to the Gambia on 17 August 2018 and to Sierra Leone on 17 November 2018.
In Liberia, he received a complaint of abuse on the part of two bishops from a former priest; with the head of the Liberian Bishops Conference, he visited the Vatican in June 2019 to discuss the accusations and the bishops' denials.
On 14 May 2022, Pope Francis named him Apostolic Nuncio to the Panama.
See also
* List of heads of the diplomatic missions of the Holy See
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References
External links
Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Dagoberto Campos Salas
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Apostolic Nuncios to Liberia
Apostolic Nuncios to the Gambia
Apostolic Nuncios to Sierra Leone
Apostolic Nuncios to Panama
Living people
1966 births
People from Puntarenas
Costa Rican Roman Catholic bishops
21st-century Roman Catholic titular archbishops