Emil Paul Tscherrig

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Emil Paul Tscherrig (born February 3, 1947 in Unterems , Valais , Switzerland ) is a Roman Catholic Archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See .

Life

Emil Tscherrig, the eldest of eight children of a Swiss mountain farming family, entered the seminary in Sion and later Givisiez after graduating from the Brig college . He was ordained a priest on April 11, 1974 and received his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University .

Pope John Paul II appointed him to the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1978, including as embassy secretary with stations in Uganda , South Korea , Mongolia and Bangladesh . Pope John Paul II awarded him the title of Honorary Prelate of His Holiness on November 26, 1992 .

On May 4, 1996, John Paul II appointed him Titular Archbishop of Voli and Apostolic Nuncio in the African crisis area in Burundi . He was ordained bishop by Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano on June 27 of the same year; Co- consecrators were Henri Cardinal Schwery and Norbert Brunner , Bishop of Sitten.

In 2000 he was appointed nuncio to Trinidad and Tobago , the Dominican Republic , Jamaica , Grenada , Guyana , St. Lucia , St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Bahamas ; from 2001 also in Barbados , Antigua and Barbuda , Suriname and St. Kitts and Nevis . In 2004 he took over the nunciatures in Korea and Mongolia .

Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Nuncio for the Nordic countries Sweden , Denmark , Finland , Iceland and Norway in 2008 , based near Stockholm . On January 5, 2012, Benedict XVI appointed him. to the Apostolic Nuncio in Argentina with seat in Buenos Aires .

On September 12, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Tscherrig to succeed Adriano Bernardini as nuncio in Italy and San Marino , based in Rome . He is the first non-Italian to hold the post of Ambassador of the Holy See to the Italian government and to San Marino.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annuario Pontificio per l'anno 1996 , Città del Vaticano 1996, p. 2423.
  2. ↑ “The Korean Church should be missionary!” ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) fides, October 19, 2004
  3. ^ "Swiss becomes nuncio in Italy" ( Memento of December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Vatican Radio on September 12, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Tscherrig, Emil Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Catholic Archbishop and Diplomat of the Holy See
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterems , Valais, Switzerland