{"id":27514,"date":"2018-02-28T09:14:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T09:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=27514"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:45:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T09:45:25","slug":"acn-malta-congratulates-mgr-alfred-xuereb-appointment-bishop-nuncio-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/02\/28\/acn-malta-congratulates-mgr-alfred-xuereb-appointment-bishop-nuncio-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"ACN Malta congratulates\u00a0Mgr\u00a0Alfred Xuereb on his appointment as bishop and Nuncio to South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ACN Malta congratulates\u00a0Mgr\u00a0Alfred Xuereb on his appointment as bishop and Nuncio to South Korea<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Archdiocese of Malta and the Diocese of Gozo have welcomed the appointment of Gozitan Mgr\u00a0Alfred Xuereb as Apostolic Nuncio of Seoul for South Korea and his elevation to titular Archbishop of\u00a0Amantea\u00a0in Italy.\u00a0Mgr was born in Victoria in October 1958. The episcopal\u00a0ordination will be presided by Pope Francis at the Vatican on 19 March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Monsignor Alfred Xuereb was the former second secretary of Benedict XVI and for some months also of Pope Francis. He is currently prelate general secretary of the Secretariat for the Economy led by Cardinal George Pell. He<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gozo\u00a0Bishop Mario Grech\u00a0congratulated Mgr\u00a0Xuereb\u00a0and wished him well in his important new post.\u00a0\u00a0Speaking about his new appointment<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mgr\u00a0Xuereb said the Pope was being careful to build bridges, particularly in Asia and he was honoured to be appointed Apostolic Nuncio.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACN Malta congratulates\u00a0Mgr\u00a0Alfred Xuereb on his appointment as bishop and Nuncio to South Korea &nbsp; The Archdiocese of Malta and the Diocese of Gozo have welcomed the appointment of Gozitan Mgr\u00a0Alfred Xuereb as Apostolic Nuncio of Seoul for South Korea and his elevation to titular Archbishop of\u00a0Amantea\u00a0in Italy.\u00a0Mgr was born in Victoria in October 1958&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ACN Malta congratulates\u00a0Mgr\u00a0Alfred Xuereb on his appointment as bishop and Nuncio to South Korea - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/02\/28\/acn-malta-congratulates-mgr-alfred-xuereb-appointment-bishop-nuncio-south-korea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ACN Malta congratulates\u00a0Mgr\u00a0Alfred Xuereb on his appointment as bishop and Nuncio to South Korea - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ACN Malta congratulates\u00a0Mgr\u00a0Alfred Xuereb on his appointment as bishop and Nuncio to South Korea &nbsp; 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