Adolfo Tito Camacho Yllana (born 6 February 1948) is a Philippine prelate of the

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who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He has been an archbishop and apostolic nuncio since 2001, the Apostolic Nuncio to Israel as well as

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to Jerusalem and Palestine since June 2021.

Biography

Adolfo Tito Yllana was born on 6 February 1948 in Naga City,

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. He undertook religious studies from the Holy Rosary Seminary also in the same city. On 19 March 1972, he was ordained a priest of the

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. He went on to obtain a doctorate in civil and canon law from the

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in Rome and began his diplomatic career after finishing his studies at the Academia Ecclesiastica, the premier academy for the diplomatic corps in the Vatican.

Diplomatic career

His first diplomatic posts were in

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and

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. On 13 December 2001, he was appointed titular archbishop of Montecorvino and Apostolic Nuncio to

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. He was consecrated by

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on 6 January 2002 in

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. On he was given the additional responsibility of Apostolic Nuncio to the Solomon Islands. He was appointed apostolic nuncio to Pakistan on 31 March 2006 by

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. In November 2007, Archbishop Yllana joined in the celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the

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, with a special message from Pope Benedict XVI to the local congregation. On 21 September 2009, he presided at the consecration in St. Joseph's Cathedral of the new coadjutor bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Bishop

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. More than 1,500 people attended the event. On 17 April 2010, the diocese of Faisalabad organized a special ceremony to celebrate its golden jubilee. Archbishop Yllana, Bishop Joseph Coutts (Faisalabad), Archbishop

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(Lahore), and Bishop

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(Multan) spoke on the occasion. At the jubilee Mass at the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, attended by about 5,000 Catholics from 21 parishes, Archbishop Yllana said that the Vatican was happy to see the number of priestly and religious vocations in the diocese. On 20 November 2010,

appointed Yllana as the Apostolic Nuncio to the

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. On 17 February 2015,

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appointed Yllana as the Apostolic Nuncio to Australia. During his time as Apostolic Nuncio to Australia, Yllana officially opened the Toowoomba Catholic Schools Office (which had been built on the site of the former Toowoomba South State School) in the presence of the Bishop of Toowoomba, Robert McGuckin. On 3 June 2021, Pope Francis named him Apostolic Nuncio to

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and to

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as well as Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine. On 17 February 2023, Pope Francis assigned his duties of Cyprus to

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