date: 12.02.2022.
On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes (February 11, 2022), a new Apostolic Visitor arrived to Medjugorje with a special role for the parish of Medjugorje for an indefinite period and ad nutum Sanctae Sedis - Archbishop Msgr. Aldo Cavalli, Archbishop Vibo Valentie, and former Apostolic Nuncio to the Netherlands.
Archbishop Cavalli will celebrate the first Holy Mass with parishioners and pilgrims in Medjugorje tomorrow (February 13, 2022) at 11 am in the Church of St. James inMedjugorje.
On November 27, 2021, the Press Office of the Holy See published the news that Pope Francis had appointed Archbishop Msgr. Aldo Cavalli, titular Archbishop Vibo Valentia (Vibo Valentia - lat. Dioecesis Vibonensis), former Apostolic Nuncio to the Netherlands, as the Apostolic Visitor with a special role for the parish of Medjugorje, indefinitely and ad nutum Sanctae Sedis.
This is a continuation of the mission carried out in Medjugorje by Archbishop Henryk Hoser, S.A.C., who passed away on August 13, 2021 in Warsaw.
Msgr. Aldo Cavalli was born on October 18, 1946 in Lecco (Italy). He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Bergamo on March 18, 1971. After his ordination to the priesthood, he taught literature at the Seminary, during which time he completed his studies in political science at a Catholic university. Since 1975, he has been at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome, crowning his stay with a postgraduate degree in theology and ecclesiastical law. He served in several nunciatures as the secretary and in the State Secretariat of the Holy See. He was ordained a bishop on August 26, 1996 in the Cathedral of Bergamo. He has been the Apostolic Nuncio to Chile, Colombia, Malta and Libya, and since March 21, 2015 he has been the Nuncio to the Netherlands and the Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
