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Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Homero Marín Arboleda, C.M., until now parish priest of Saint Anthony of Padua on Kiriwina Island and of Blessed John Mazzucconi on Woodlark Island, Papua New Guinea, as vicar apostolic of Tierradento, Colombia.
Msgr. Homero Marín Arboleda, C.M., was born on 17 November 1959 in Circasia, Quindio, Colombia. He studied philosophy at the Seminario Mayor La Milagrosa in Medellín, and theology at the Seminario Villa Paúl.
He was ordained a priest on 21 November 1987 for the Congregation of the Mission.
After ordination, he held the roles of parish vicar (1987) and parish priest (1988-1993) in Vitoncó; vice rector and professor at the Seminario Indígena Páez (1988); parish priest of Willa (1988 and 1994); rector of the minor seminary of Páez, and professor at the major seminary. He was awarded a licentiate in missiology from the Pontifical Urbaniana University of Rome (1996), and went on to serve as provincial counsellor in Colombia (1997-2000), formator of the Seminario Indígena Páez (1998-1999) and rector of the Seminario Mayor La Milagrosa in Medellín (2000); vice rector of the seminary in Bomana, Papua New Guinea (2001-2007), parish priest of Holy Name of Jesus in Bomana (2007-2013); superior of the Lazarist Mission in Papua New Guinea (2009-2011); parish priest of Saint Anthony of Padua on Kiriwina Island (since 2013) and of Blessed John Mazzucconi on Woodlark Island (since 2019). (EG) (Fides News Agency, 12/5/2026)
