Background
Archbishop Adams was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States of America), on 24 August 1944.
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Archbishop Adams was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States of America), on 24 August 1944.
After his elementary education in Catholic grammar schools, he attended Saint Joseph’s Preparatory School, Villanova University, and Philadelphia’s Saint Charles Theological Seminary.
Early life, education, ordination
He was ordained a priest on 16 May 1970 by John Joseph Cardinal Krol, the Archbishop of Philadelphia. After being assigned to advanced studies in Rome, he graduated, in 1976, from the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Since then, he served the Pope in Apostolic Nunciatures in various countries throughout the world.
Assignments, Diplomatic Corps of the Holy See
Adams was designated Apostolic Nuncio to Bangladesh and Titular Archbishop of Scala on 24 August 1996, and was consecrated on 23 October of that year by Angelo Cardinal Sodano, the Papal Secretary of State.
His principal co-consecrators were Anthony Joseph Cardinal Bevilacqua and John Patrick Cardinal Foley. After six years as Papal Representative in Bangladesh, Adams was named Apostolic Nuncio to Zimbabwe on 22 August 2002 and, after serving five years in that country, on 3 September 2007, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, the 16th Papal Representative to the country.
On 22 February 2011 he was appointed Nuncio to Greece.