A nuncio is a representative of the Vatican to foreign governments and church authorities.
Dubiel was first appointed on July 1 as the papal nuncio to Angola and simultaneously as the titular archbishop of Vannida.
Following this, on July 15, he was also entrusted with the role of papal nuncio to São Tomé and Príncipe.
Before his latest appointment by Pope Francis, Dubiel served in various diplomatic posts for the Holy See in Rwanda, Belarus, Colombia, the Philippines, Poland, Slovenia and the United Arab Emirates. His broad international experience will now be pivotal in his roles.
Born in Nowa Sarzyna, Poland, in 1973, Dubiel was ordained a priest on May 31, 1998, in the Przemyśl Basilica by Archbishop Józef Michalik after completing his theological studies at the Metropolitan Major Seminary in the southeastern Polish city of Przemyśl.
He served as a vicar in the Parish of All Saints in Iwonicz in Poland's southeast from 1998 to 1999.
Dubiel furthered his education at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, where he studied canon law from 1999 to 2003 and earned a doctoral degree. He is also a graduate of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome (2002-2004).
On August 24, Dubiel will be consecrated as a bishop at the Bernardine Fathers' Minor Basilica in the historic Polish town of Leżajsk, as announced by the press office of the Polish Episcopal Conference.
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Source: PAP
