Pope Benedict: CDF official Nuncio to Ireland

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed New York native, Msgr. Charles Brown Papal Nuncio to the Republic of Ireland.

Msgr. Brown has worked at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since 1994, and is the Adjunct Secretary of the International Theological Commission. He studied History as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame, and afterwards went on read Theology at Oxford University, and did Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Furthermore, he gained a doctorate in Sacramental Theology from the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo in Rome.

The Irish Government gave its approval at a Cabinet meeting November 23. Dublin has been without a papal representative since the former Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza was recalled to Rome for consultations in July.

The Irish government, which announced the closure of its embassy to the Holy See last month for economic reasons, has sent the Vatican its nomination for a non-resident Ambassador.