Tagbilaran City (15 January) — A Boholano bishop and Vatican’s apostolic nuncio to Haiti survived Haiti’s devastating earthquake and is now in safe ground.
Archbishop Bernardito Cleopas Auza, 50 wrote on the Paring Bol-anon yahoo group saying he is safe but is still camping outside due to sustaining tremors.
A native of Talibon, Bohol, Auza was born in 1959 and attended his early seminary training at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary in Tagbilaran City. He was ordained priest in 1985.
Auza finished his theological studies at the Pontifical University of Sto. Tomas Central Seminary, and entered the diplomatic service a year after his ordination.
He was assigned First Counsellor of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York, and was later appointed apostolic nuncio to Haiti by Pope Benedict VXI, elevating him to the dignity of archbishop.
Archbishop Auza also worked with Filipino peacekeepers manning the peace efforts in Haiti.
