Denver Newsroom, Sep 6, 2022 / 15:00 pm
The Holy See’s Press Office announced Sept. 6 that Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, the former apostolic nuncio in Nicaragua who was expelled from the country by the Daniel Ortega dictatorship, will be sent to Africa.
With his new assignment, Sommertag from now on will be the apostolic nuncio in Senegal, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Mauritania.
The prelate was expelled from Nicaragua on March 6. On March 9, the Nicaraguan Bishops’ Conference issued a statement confirming his departure to Rome.
Referring to the nuncio’s “accreditation with the Government of Nicaragua,” the country’s bishops noted that “this matter is the exclusive bilateral competence of the Holy See and the Government of Nicaragua, therefore, this Episcopal Conference, out of deference and respect to the procedures of the Holy See, refrains from making a statement on this issue.”