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Nigerian Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo Appointed as the New Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti 🇭🇹

Port-au-Prince, 2026: His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has appointed His Excellency Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo as Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti.

The 69-year-old Nigerian archbishop returns to Haiti, where he had already served at the beginning of his diplomatic career in the 1990s. Ordained a priest in 1983, Archbishop Okolo has successively held the positions of Apostolic Nuncio in the Central African Republic and Chad, the Dominican Republic, Ireland, and more recently, the Czech Republic.

A skilled polyglot with excellent command of French, Archbishop Okolo brings extensive diplomatic experience to the service of the Church in Haiti.

We wish him a fruitful pastoral and diplomatic mission among the Haitian people.