The Holy Father has appointed His Excellency Msgr .  Bernardito Cleopas Auza, as Nuncio. He is the current Apostolic Nuncio to Spain, appointed to that position on 1 October 2019.   He succeeds Archbishop Noel Treanor, sometime Bishop of Down & Connor who died tragically. 

Msgr Auza was born on 10 June 1959, in Balintawak, Talibon, Bohol, Philippines,the eighth of twelve children of Meliton Garcia Auza and Magdalena Polestico Cleopas. After preliminary education in Talibon, he entered the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary in Tagbilaran City. He then enrolled at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, where he obtained his Licentiate in Philosophy in 1981, Licentiate in Theology in 1986, and Masters in Education also in 1986.

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