Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Francisco Gerardo Escalante Molina as Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, who studied at licentiate degree in Sacred Scripture at the School of Theology at the University of Navarra during the 1991-93 academic year. Monsignor Escalante is Archbishop of the titular see of Graziana.

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Escalante Molina was born in the town of La Grita (Venezuela), on January 29, 1965. programs of study He attended primary school at high school Santa Rosa de Lima, Jáuregui municipality, and later at seminar Diocesano Santo Tomás de Aquino, in Palmira, in the Venezuelan state of Táchira, where he studied Philosophy and Theology. high school diploma Philosophical and Theological.

He was ordained to the priesthood on August 26, 1989. After graduating from Sacred Scripture at the University of Navarra, he was admitted to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy of the Vatican.. He obtained the Degree of doctorate in Canon Law from the Lateran University of Rome. He began his diplomatic service at the Holy See in 1998, where he has worked in the papal delegations of representation in Sudan, Ghana, Malta, Nicaragua, Japan and Slovakia.venia.