A 72-year-old American archbishop who has served as nuncio to Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and the Philippines has been appointed the Holy See’s ambassador to Great Britain.
He replaces Archbishop Antonio Mennini, who earlier this year was transferred to the Secretariat of State, the Vatican department responsible for relations with states.
For the last six years Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams has been nuncio to Greece.
He grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was ordained a priest in 1970 by the city’s then archbishop, Cardinal John Krol. He began his career as a diplomat in 1976 after completing studies in Rome.
