| Styles of Franco Coppola |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Archbishop |
| Posthumous style | not applicable |
Eugene Martin Nugent JCD (born 21 October 1958) is the Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar and Apostolic Delegate to the Comoros and to Reunion since 13 February 2010. He had previously served with the rank of Counsellor of Nunciature.[1]
Nugent was born in Gurtaderra Scariff County Clare, Ireland on 21 October 1958. He attended Clonusker National School and Scariff Community College. He studied for the priesthood in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth where he received a B.A. in Celtic Studies. He then went on to the Pontifical Irish College, Rome, taking his Baccalaureate in Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was ordained a priest on 9 July 1983 and incardinated in the diocese of Killaloe and completed a Licentiate in Canon Law after ordination.[2] He was appointed as a curate in Ennis and ministered in the parish from 1984 to 1987. He was called to Rome where from 1988 until 1991, he worked in the Section for General Affairs of the Secretariat of the State. In 1992, he completed his doctorate in canon law at the Gregorian University. In the same year, he graduated from the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy and entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 1 July 1992. He then worked in the papal diplomatic missions in Turkey, Jerusalem and the Philippines. He speaks Irish, English, French, German and Italian.
On 13 February 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar and Apostolic Delegate to the Comoros (papal representative to the Catholic communities in both countries but accredited only to the government of Madagascar) and Titular Archbishop of Domnach Sechnaill (Dunshaughlin) County Meath, Ireland. On 11 March 2010, he was named also Apostolic Delegate to Mauritius and Seychelles. Archbishop Nugent was ordained to the episcopacy in Rome on 18 March 2010. The principal consecrator was Tarcisio Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State.[2]
As his episcopal motto he chose "Quodcumque dixerit facite" (Do whatever he says), taken from the Gospel of St John 2:5.[3]
Bishop Willie Walsh, welcoming the news, said, "Archbishop-elect Nugent is a gifted and well respected priest who has given great service to the Diocese of Killaloe and to the Holy See. All of us in the Diocese are filled with joy at the trust that Pope Benedict has placed in him to be his representative to the peoples of Madagascar, La Réunion and the Comoros Islands. I pray that God’s spirit will strengthen him as he takes up his new ministry" [2]
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| Preceded by Augustine Kasujja |
Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar 13 February 2010–incumbent |
Succeeded by incumbent |
