Appointment of Apostolic Administrator for Anatolia Turkey
(June 12, 2010) The Holy Father has appointed His Excellency Archbishop Ruggero Franceschini, OFM Cap, currently, Archbishop of Izmir, as Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia Turkey. Archbishop Franceschini was born on September1, 1939 in Italy, and was appointed Archbishop of Izmir in Turkey in October 2004. Prior to this appointment he was the Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia Turkey from October 11, 1993. The seat became vacant with the murder of Bishop Luigi Padovese, apostolic vicar in Anatolia, who was stabbed to death on the 3rd of June, 2010. He was 63. Luigi Padovese was born in Milan in 1947. He was ordained a Capuchin priest in 1973. In 2004, he was named apostolic vicar to Anatolia, and made a bishop that same year.
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