Emanuele Gerada

Who was Emanuele Gerada?

Emanuele Gerada was a Maltese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and Titular Archbishop of Nomentum.

Gerada was born in Malta and ordained a priest on 1 August 1943 for the Archdiocese of Malta. He was appointed Auxiliary Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Malta and Titular Bishop of Nomentum on 15 February 1967 and was ordained bishop on 18 June 1967. Gerada was appointed as the Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador and Guatemala as well as Archbishop to the Titular See of Nomentum on 8 November 1973. On 15 October 1980 he was appointed as Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Pakistan and served until his appointment as Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland on 4 February 1989. Gerada retired on 17 October 1995 and died on 21 January 2011.

Gerada was born on the same day as Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II.