Thomas Gullickson

Thomas Edward Gullickson ( born August 14, 1950 in Sioux Falls, United States) is a Roman Catholic archbishop and apostolic nuncio.

Life

Thomas Gullickson was ordained a priest on June 27, 1976 in his hometown, also the seat of his native diocese of Sioux Falls, by Bishop Anthony Lambert High.

In 1985 he was at the Pontifical Gregorian University after making a thesis entitled The diocesan bishop. Moderator and sponsor of the ministry of the word. A comparative study of Tridentine legislation and the 1983 code of canon law to Dr. theol. doctorate. Pope John Paul II granted him on 30 June 1986 the honorary title of Chaplain of His Holiness ( Monsignor ) on 21 November 1997 and the title of Honorary Prelate of His Holiness.

On October 2, 2004 he was named titular Archbishop of John Paul II Polymartium and Apostolic Nuncio to Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He received his episcopal consecration Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, secretary of the Vatican Secretariat of State, on 15 December of the same year; Co-consecrators were Bishop Robert James Carlson and retired Bishop Paul Vincent Dudley of Sioux Falls. On the same day he was also appointed Apostolic Nuncio for Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname and Grenada.

Pope Benedict XVI. appointed him on 21 May 2011 as Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine.