ANTILLES EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE
9a Gray St, Port of Spain
Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies
President: Most Rev. Gabriel Malzaire, Bishop of Roseau
Vice President: Most Rev. Charles Jason Gordon, Archbishop of Port of Spain
General Secretary: Fr. Donald Chambers
Telephone: 1 868 622-2932 Email: aecgeneralsec@gmail.com Website: aecbishops.org
PRESS RELEASE
Pope Francis, has appointed Apostolic Nuncio to the Antilles, Archbishop Fortunatus
Nwachukwu, to the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations Office and
Specialized Institutions in Geneva, as well as the Permanent Observer to the World Trade
Organization (WTO) and the Representative of the Holy See to the International Migrations
Organization (IOM).
He was transferred from Nicaragua to the current Mission on 4 November 2017, and arrived in
Trinidad and Tobago to assume office on 19 March 2018. He is sincerely grateful for your support
during his mission in this Region and requests that you please accompany him with your prayers
and friendship as he prepares to embrace the new responsibilities.
He will still remain in charge of the Mission here in Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean and
Antilles, until he departs for the new mission, most likely at the beginning of March 2022.
Given at the Office of the Antilles Episcopal Conference Secretariat, Port of Spain, Trinidad on
the 16th day of December, 2021.
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Dated: Friday 17th December, 2021
