AMERICA/NICARAGUA - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed

Friday, 21 February 2025

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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 9, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization - Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches - appointed Msgr. Carlos Adán Alvarado, of the clergy of Juigalpa, as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Nicaragua for the five-year period 2025-2030.
Msgr. Carlos Adán Alvarado is 57 years old and has been a priest for 18 years. He was already National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Nicaragua for five years, from June 13, 2014 to June 12, 2019.
He is currently parish priest of the Parish of Saint Peter the Apostle in San Pedro de Lóvago, as well as Vicar General of the Diocese of Juigalpa and Diocesan Councilor for Evangelization. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 21/2/2025)