Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us”. The words of the Apostle Saint Paul in the fifth chapter of the Letter to the Romans was the theme of the liturgy for the episcopal ordination of Father Emilio Nappa, celebrated on the afternoon of Saturday, January 28 in Saint Peter’s Basilica.
On December 3, Pope Francis appointed Father Nappa as Assistant Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization with the position of President of the Pontifical Missionary Societies, conferring on him the title of Archbishop and assigning him the titular see of Satriano (see Fides, 3/12/2022). The episcopal motto chosen by the new Archbishop, “Caritas diffusa est”, refers precisely to the quoted passage from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans. “The gift of a new bishop assures us that God cares for His people”, Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Missionary Dicastery, said at the beginning of his homily, who presided over the Eucharistic celebration and conferred episcopal ordination on Monsignor Nappa.
The consecration liturgy, celebrated at the Altar of the Chair, was attended by hundreds of family members, relatives, and friends (many of whom came from Campania, homeland of the new Archbishop), along with officials and employees of the Dicastery for Evangelization and more than 20 concelebrating bishops, including co-consacrants Edgar Peña Parra, Substitute for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State, and Angelo Spinillo, Bishop of Aversa.READ ON BELOW>>>
VATICAN – “The Lord does great things through the little ones”. Cardinal Tagle consecrates Father Emilio Nappa, Assistant Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, as Bishop – Agenzia Fides
VATICAN – “The Lord does great things through the little ones”. Cardinal Tagle consecrates Father Emilio Nappa, Assistant Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, as Bishop – Agenzia Fides
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