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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 24, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Father Jaime Coimbra Do Nascimento, PIME, as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Guinea Bissau for a five-year term. The new national director of the PMS in Guinea Bissau is 51 years old and was ordained a priest in 1999. From 1999 to 2005 he was a missionary vocation animator for the PIME region of South Brazil, in the diocese of Londrina (Paranà). From 2006 to 2011 he was a missionary and parish priest in the parish of Maria Immacolata delle Bijagos (Diocese of Bissau-Guinea Bissau); later from 2011 to 2017 he was vice-rector and treasurer of the PIME International Theological Seminary in Monza (Italy). From 2017 to 2020 he was a missionary vocation animator for PIME in Brazil (Londrina-Paranà) and since 2020 he has been a missionary in Guinea Bissau. He held the position of formator of the PIME vocational community "Dom Pedro Zilli" and that of parish vicar of Nossa Senhora of Fatima in Bissau. He was a regional councilor for PIME in the regions of Brazil and Guinea Bissau. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 20/7/2023)
