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James Green (bishop)

American Catholic prelate (born 1950)

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	His Excellency, The Most Reverend
name	James Patrick Green
type	Archbishop
title	Apostolic Nuncio emeritus of Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway
Titular Archbishop of Altinum
image	Monseñor James Green.jpg
appointed	6 April 2017 (Sweden, Iceland)
13 June 2017 (Denmark)
12 October 2017 (Finland)
18 October 2017 (Norway)
retired	30 April 2022
predecessor	Henryk Józef Nowacki
successor	Julio Murat
<!---------- Orders ---------->	ordination	15 May 1976
ordained_by	John Krol
consecration	6 September 2006
consecrated_by	Angelo Sodano, Ivan Dias and Justin Francis Rigali
<!---------- Personal details ---------->	birth_date
birth_place	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
previous_post
other_post	Titular Archbishop of Altinum
caption	Green in 2012

| honorific-prefix = His Excellency, The Most Reverend Titular Archbishop of Altinum 13 June 2017 (Denmark) 12 October 2017 (Finland) 18 October 2017 (Norway)

His Excellency
The Most Reverend

James Patrick Green (born May 3, 1950) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who from 2006 to 2022 served as apostolic nuncio to a variety of countries including to several Scandinavian countries from 2017 to 2022.

Green consecrated Robert F. Prevost, who would go on to become Pope Leo XIV after the 2025 papal conclave, as a bishop.

Early years

Green was born on May 3, 1950, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied for the priesthood and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on May 15, 1976.

Diplomatic career

During his early years in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, he served in Papua New Guinea, South Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, and Denmark. He then spent a year in Taiwan as chargé d'affaires and then worked in Rome beginning in late 2002.

On August 17, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Green as titular archbishop of Altinum, apostolic nuncio to South Africa and Namibia, and apostolic delegate to Botswana.

Green was consecrated bishop on September 6, 2006, by Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano. That same day, Green was as appointed apostolic delegate to Lesotho. On September 23, 2006, he was appointed as apostolic delegate to Eswatini.

On October 15, 2011, Green was appointed as apostolic nuncio to Peru. On April 6, 2017, he became apostolic nuncio to Sweden and to Iceland; on June 13 to Denmark; on October 12 to Finland; and on October 18 to Norway.

Pope Francis accepted his resignation from his posts as nuncio on April 30, 2022.

References

(May 17, 2015). "Una autoridad debe apartarse de la corrupción, el egoísmo y de enriquecerse a sí mismo". [[La República]].
(17 August 2006). "Rinunce e Nomine, 17.08.2006". [[Holy See Press Office]].
[[Annuario Pontificio]] (2007), pp. 1346, 1359, 1365; [[Annuario Pontificio]] (2011), pp. 1314, 1327, 1333.
(6 September 2006). "Msgr. James P. Green ... ordained an archbishop". Catholic Press Photo.
(6 September 2006). "Rinunce e Nomine, 06.09.2006". Holy See Press Office.
(23 September 2006). "Rinunce e Nomine, 23.09.2006". Holy See Press Office.
[[Annuario Pontificio]] (2007), pp. 1356, 1366; [[Annuario Pontificio]] (2011), pp. 1324, 1334.
(15 October 2011). "Rinunce e Nomine, 15.10.2011". Holy See Press Office.
[[Annuario Pontificio]] (2012), p. 1323.
(6 April 2017). "Rinunce e Nomine, 06.04.2017". Holy See Press Office.
(13 June 2017). "Rinunce e Nomine, 13.06.2017". Holy See Press Office.
(12 October 2017). "Rinunce e Nomine, 12.10.2017". Holy See Press Office.
(18 October 2017). "Rinunce e Nomine, 18.10.2017". Holy See Press Office.
(April 30, 2022). "Rinunce e Nomine, 30.04.2022". Holy See Press Office.

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