Henryk Mieczysław Jagodziński (born 1 January 1969) is a Polish priest of the Catholic Church who has been named Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana with the rank of archbishop.
Biography
Henryk Jagodziński was born in
Małogoszcz
Małogoszcz is a town in the Jędrzejów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland. The Battle of Małogoszcz. one of the biggest battles of the 1863 January Uprising, took place there. Małogoszcz belongs to Lesser Poland; the name of the ...
, Poland, on 1 January 1969. He attended the Higher Theological Seminary in
Kielce. He was ordained a priest of the
Diocese of Kielce
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kielce ( la, Kielcen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Kielce in the Ecclesiastical province of Kraków in Poland.
Its Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kielce is listed as a ...
on 3 June 1995 by Bishop
Kazimierz Ryczan. He holds a degree in canon law. He did parish work in
Busko-Zdrój for two years and then studied in Rome, earning a doctorate in canon law at the
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross ( la, Pontificia Universitas Sanctae Crucis, it, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce) is a Roman Catholic university under the Curial Congregation for Catholic Education, now entrusted to the Prela ...
. He also studied at the Vatican training institute for diplomats, the
Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.
[
He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 1 July 2001. His early 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.]Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...
appointed him titular archbishop of Limosano
Limosano is a ''comune'' (municipality) and Latin titular see in the Province of Campobasso in the southern Italian region Molise, located about northwest of Campobasso.
Limosano borders the following municipalities: Castropignano, Fossalto, ...
and Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana.
See also
* List of heads of the diplomatic missions of the Holy See
The following is a sortable list of the heads of the diplomatic mission of the Holy See. An apostolic nuncio (also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic repres ...
References
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Living people
1969 births
People from Jędrzejów County
Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy alumni
Apostolic Nuncios to Ghana
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross alumni