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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 10, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed, Rev. Jēkabs Rodions Doļa, of the Diocese of Rēzekne-Aglona, director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Latvia.
The new director is 36 years old and has been ordained a priest for 10 years. He obtained a Doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He is parish priest in two parishes in Ludza and Rudēni and Dean of the Deanery of Ludza. He is postulator of the cause of Beatification and Canonization of the diocesan priest Vladislavs Litaunieks.
Finally he leads pilgrimages to Rome, the Holy Land and Turkey. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 21/5/2025)
