Pope Francisco has named a replacement for Monsignor Jude Thaddeus Okolo. This is 66-year old Ghaleb Moussa Abdallah Bader whose previous post was Apostolic Nuncio to Pakistan.
Ghaleb Bader entered in the minor seminary in Beit Jala, a Palestinian Christian town in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank in 1963. He was later ordained a priest in Amman, Jordan in 1975. He became vicar of the Christ the King parish in the same city in 1976. He would move on from his role as parish priest in 1979, to begin a career as a canonist, and participated in the Arabic translation of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. He would preside the Ecclesiastical Court of Jerusalem in 1988. He then became parish priest of the Annunciation parish in Amman, and presided the Ecclesiastical Court of Amman. In 1998, he left his curial task to devote himself exclusively to his role as chairman of the tribunal.
He was appointed Archbishop of Algiers by Pope Benedict XVI on 24 May 2008, and was consecrated bishop in that same year.
Archbishop Bader also served as an advisor to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue from 1996 to 2001.
On 23 May 2015, Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader as Titular Archbishop of Mathara in Numidia and Apostolic Nuncio to Pakistan, his previous post prior to his new appointment to the Dominican Republic.
24 August 2017
