Vicar Apostolic of Gambella
Fr. Roberto Bergamaschi, S.D.B., as vicar apostolic of Awasa (area 118,760, population 7,720,000, Catholics 216,031, priests 48, religious 113), Ethiopia. The bishop-elect was born in San Donato Milanese, Italy in 1954, gave his religious vows in 1975 and was ordained a priest in 1982. He has served in a number of pastoral roles, including missionary in Dilla, Ethiopia, parish priest, visitator of the Salesian Inspectorate of Ethiopia-Eritrea, and director of Salesian works of Gotera and of Mekanissa, in Addis Abeba. He is currently pastor of the St. Mary Help of Christians parish in Dilla, and member of the mission council and of the presbyteral council.