MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis has appointed a missionary Filipino priest to lead the papal mission to the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu.
According to the CBCPNews, the official news service provider of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), the pontiff appointed Fr. Eliseo Napiere of the Mission Society of the Philippines (MSP) as superior of the missio sui iuris (independent mission) of Funafuti, the capital of Tuvalu.
Napiere, 58, would succeed Bishop Reynaldo Getalado, who was ordained…
