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Letter #19, 2021, Monday, April 26: Miles of Gibraltar Letter #19, 2021, Monday, April 26: Miles of Gibraltar
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You will not be like the hired hand, who flees before dangers because he is unconcerned for the flock.” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, in Gibraltar yesterday, where Parolin consecrated as a new archbishop Gibraltar native Mark Miles, 53, during Parolin’s homily at the Mass (on the photo above, Parolin places his hands on Miles’s head at the moment of episcopal consecration)
“Though born and raised at the Pillars of Hercules, beyond which the ancients were forbidden to pass, you yourself have frequently done precisely that in your years of service to the Holy See. We readily entrust you now with even greater responsibility by appointing you to the office of Apostolic Nuncio.”
Emotion and pride in Gibraltar as Archbishop Mark Miles is ordained
Photos by Johnny Bugeja 25th April 2021
Gibraltarian priest Mark Miles was ordained an Archbishop on Sunday in a moving ceremony during which he was commended to work with “an open, generous, steadfast and compassionate heart” in his new role as Apostolic Nuncio to Togo and Benin.
Archbishop Miles was appointed the papal ambassador to the west African countries by Pope Francis, whose mandate was read to the congregation of about 800 people gathered in the Europa Point sports hall, transformed for the occasion with an altar as the focal point for the service.