NEW PERMANENT OBSERVER OF THE HOLY SEE PRESENTS LETTER OF NOMINATION TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, the new Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Jurkovic had been serving as Apostolic Nuncio to the Russian Federation from 2011 to 2016, to Ukraine from 2004 to 2011, and to Belarus from 2001 to 2004. On 6 October 2001, he was ordained as Titular Archbishop of Corbavia.

Archbishop Jurkovic was ordained as a priest of the Archdiocese of Ljubljana in 1977. After graduating from the Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana in 1978, and studies at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy from 1980 to 1984, he joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1984. He became a Doctor of Canon Law in 1988. He served as Secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature to South Korea from 1984 to 1988; Counsellor of the Apostolic Nunciature to Colombia from 1988 to 1992; Counsellor of the Representation of the Holy See to the Russian Federation from 1992 to 1995; and Counsellor at the Secretariat of the State of the Holy See (Vatican) from 1996 to 2001.

From 1993 to 1996, Msgr. Jurkovic lectured on Canon Law at the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Theological College in Moscow, where he also published a number of publications. He was born in Kocevje, Slovenia on 10 June 1952.



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