In his 40 plus years as a bishop in Colombia Archbishop Jos de Jes s Pimiento Rodr guez did many extraordinary things He attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council mdash he is in fact one of the few remaining fathers of the council mdash and supported its implementation in Colomb

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In his 34 years as a priest Archbishop Dominique Fran ois Mamberti 62 has worked on the church rsquo s diplomatic teams in Algeria Chile and Lebanon represented the Vatican at the United Nations served as nuncio to Sudan and apostolic delegate to Somalia and Eritrea been the Vatican rsquo s

In his 20 years as a bishop what has distinguished Archbishop Ricardo Bl zquez P rez 72 is his willingness to enter into the realities of the people that he serves In 1995 he was made bishop of Bilbao a region riven by the violence and terror of the separatist paramilitary group ETA Bilbao

Each year Portugal rsquo s leading newspaper Expresso hands out the Pessoa Prize mdash ldquo the Person rdquo mdash to a figure in Portuguese society who has contributed most to the culture It rsquo s the nation rsquo s most important cultural award Its recipients are writers artists musicia

In Asia says Hanoi Archbishop Peter Nguy n V n Nh n ldquo It is more suitable for us to speak of the life of Jesus in a manner more in accord with how He Himself preached two thousand years ago with His parables An eastern not rationalist fashion rdquo Age 76 now Cardinal Nguy n has s

In East Africa they call him ldquo Bwana Yesu rdquo mdash ldquo Lord Jesus rdquo Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel C M 66 has been the Archbishop of Addis Ababa Ethiopia since 1999 also the head of the Ethiopian Catholic Church an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy Se

When Bishop Jos Luis Lacunza Maestroju n O A R 70 ordinary of the diocese of David Panam was told he was being elevated to the role of Cardinal he thought it was ldquo crazy rdquo And the fact is although Panama was in fact the home of the first Catholic diocese in the Americas it h

Archbishop John Dew 66 leader of the Church in Wellington New Zealand first looked to the priesthood because he felt a pull ldquo to be doing something that would make a difference to the lives of others The call of the Gospel was the only way that made sense for me rdquo Roughly 55 percent

For Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet Salesian priest and Archbishop of Montevideo Uruguay much is new It rsquo s been just three years since Archbishop Sturla was consecrated as an auxiliary bishop and less than twelve months since he was installed as ordinary of Montevideo Born in 1959 ordaine