ARCHBISHOP
THOMAS EDWARD GULLICKSON
SPEECHES
OF THE APOSTOLIC NUNCIO
2011
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Thomas E. Gullickson was
born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America, on
14 August 1950 and ordained to the priesthood on 27 June 1976.
He was ordained to the Episcopate in his hometown on November
11, 2004. He is titular Archbishop of Bomarzo.
He entered the diplomatic service of the
Holy See on 1st May 1985 and has been appointed successively to
the Diplomatic Missions in Rwanda, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Jerusalem,
Israel and Germany.
He has a degree in Canon Law and he speaks
English, Italian, French and German.
His first posting as Apostolic Nuncio
was to Trinidad & Tobago, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Commonwealth
of the Bahamas, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica,
St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and
the Republic of Suriname, twelve independent States in the region.
His first posting as Apostolic Delegate
was to the Antilles Episcopal Conference region, comprising the
English, French, with the exception of Haiti, and Dutch territories
in the Caribbean, a total of twenty-two with their own governments.
There are eighteen Dioceses and two Missio sui iuris, ecclesiastical
entities, in the Antilles. Archbishop Gullickson is the fifth
Apostolic Nuncio in this region.
On 21 May 2011, the Holy Father named
him Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine.
