Joseph Salvador Marino,  (born 23 January 1953 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a Diplomat of the Holy See.

 Ordination 

He was ordained a priest on 25 August 1979 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama. Cheney, David M., Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2015-1-19. He is currently Apostolic Nuncio to Malaysia, East Timor, and Apostolic delegate to BruneiPope appoints American as first Nuncio to Malaysia. O'Connell, Gerard., . Retrieved 01-19-2015.

 Episcopal ordination and diplomatic career 

Marino began his diplomatic career with an assignment to the Vatican embassy in the Philippines in 1988. He was transferred to Montevideo, Uruguay in 1991, and then to Lagos, Nigeria in 1994. In 1997 he began working throughout the Balkans.  Marino was a member of the Vatican delegation sent by Pope John Paul II to Belgrade on April 1, 1999, at the height of the Kosovo conflict. He was also part of a delegation sent to the White House before the 2003 start of the war in Iraq, as the pope sent a plea for peace. Marino sat in on a meeting between President George W. Bush and Cardinal Pio Laghi.

Archbishop Marino was appointed an archbishop by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008.  He received his episcopal ordination from Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran on March 29, 2008 in Rome. Co-consecrators were Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Titular Archbishop of Canosa and Bishop William Russell Houck, Bishop Emeritus of Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson.Cheney, David M., Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2015-1-19.

Archbishop Marino was the Apostolic Nuncio to Bangladesh from 2008 until 2013.
Marino previously served as a diplomat based at the Vatican embassy in London and served with the secretariat of state for the Vatican in Rome from 1997 to 2004.

On January 16, 2013, Archbishop Marino was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Malaysia, Apostolic Nuncio to Timor-Leste, and appointed Apostolic Delegate to Brunei Darussalam by Pope Francis.

 References 

 External links 

Entry for Joseph Salvdor Marino on catholic-hierarchy.org

See also

Roman Catholic Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama

Bishops, Roman Catholic
Category:Roman Catholic bishops by century
Category:American Roman Catholic bishops
Category:1953 births
Category:Roman Catholic titular bishops
Category:Living people
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