Joseph Salvador Marino
| His Excellency Joseph Salvador Marino | |
|---|---|
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| See | Titular See of Natchitoches |
| In office | 2013 - current |
| Successor | Incumbent |
| Orders | |
| Ordination |
August 25, 1979 by Bishop William Russell Houck |
| Consecration |
March 29, 2008 by Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 23, 1953 Birmingham, Alabama |
| Styles of Joseph Salvador Marino | |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Archbishop |
| Posthumous style | not applicable |
Joseph Salvador Marino, (born 23 January 1953 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a Diplomat of the Holy See.
Ordination
He was ordained a priest on 25 August 1979 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama. He is currently Apostolic Nuncio to Malaysia, East Timor, and Apostolic delegate to Brunei[1]
Episcopal consecration and diplomatic career
Marino began his diplomatic career with an assignment to the Vatican embassy in the Philippines in 1988. He was transferred to Montevideo, Uruguay in 1991, and then to Lagos, Nigeria in 1994. In 1997 he began working throughout the Balkans. Marino was a member of the Vatican delegation sent by Pope John Paul II to Belgrade on April 1, 1999, at the height of the Kosovo conflict. He was also part of a delegation sent to the White House before the 2003 start of the war in Iraq, as the pope sent a plea for peace. Marino sat in on a meeting between President George W. Bush and Cardinal Pio Laghi.
Archbishop Marino was appointed an archbishop by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008. He received his episcopal consecration from Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran on March 29, 2008 in Rome. Co-consecrators were Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Titular Archbishop of Canosa and Bishop William Russell Houck, Bishop Emeritus of Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson.
Archbishop Marino was the Apostolic Nuncio to Bangladesh from 2008 until 2013. Marino previously served as a diplomat based at the Vatican embassy in London and served with the secretariat of state for the Vatican in Rome from 1997 to 2004.
On January 16, 2013, Archbishop Marino was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Malaysia, Apostolic Nuncio to Timor-Leste, and appointed Apostolic Delegate to Brunei Darussalam.[2]
References
- ↑ Pope appoints American as first Nuncio to Malaysia. O'Connell, Gerard., . Retrieved 01-19-2015.
- ↑ Garrison, Greg. "Pope appoints Birmingham native Archbishop Joseph Marino to Malaysia". www.al.com. Retrieved 19 January 2015.