Australia’s new Papal Nuncio is scheduled to celebrate the Catholic mass in Sydney soon, said president of Australian Devotees to Our Lady of Penafrancia or ADOLP Mr Jun Relunia.
Filipino community leaders in Sydney led by ADOLP president Mr Jun Relunia recently visited the new Papal Nuncio or Pope’s Ambassador to Australia His Holiness Adolfo Yllana, 67, at the Vatican embassy or Nunciature in Canberra, ACT.
Papal Nuncio Adolfo “Tito” Yllana who has the title of Bishop meet a delegations of mainly Bicolano community leaders who were beaming with pride to meet a kababayan or province mate. Bishop Yllana was born in Naga City in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines.
It was sort of record to have a Catholic Pope’s representative to Australia a Filipino, let alone a Bicolano from Camarines Sur in the Philippines..
The delegation of Sydney community leaders was lead by officials of ADOLP which has successfully hosted the long running Penafrancia Festival in Penrith, NSW an Australian version of the highly famous religious and tourism festival in Naga City, Philippines.
The group included Mrs. Ellen Pan, Doc Tito Soliman, Aurora Aaron, Norma Evens, Neria Soliman, Jun Relunia, Grace ubio, Pi Gaite, and William Gaite.
Philippine community leaders are making arrangement for the celebration of Catholic mass by Bishop Yllana at a yet to be announced church in Sydney.
Bishop Yllana obtained his religious study from the Holy Rosary Seminary, also in Naga City and was ordained priest in 1972 in the Archdiocese of Caceres in Naga City.
Twelve years after ordination, Yllana joined the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See. Yllana obtained the doctor of laws both from the Lateran University in Rome and began his diplomatic career after finishing his studies at the Academica Ecclesiastica, the premier academy fr diplomatic corps in Vatican.
Yllana’s previous diplomati postings were in Ghana, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Lebanon, Greece. Hungary and China.
Yllana had served as aApostolic Nuncio in Papua New Guineau, Solomons Islands, Pakistan and Democratic Republic of Congo.