Paul Fitzpatrick Russell is one of the most popular and richest Professor who was born on May 2, 1959 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States.
Pope Francis appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey and Turkmenistan on March 19, 2016. On June 3, 2016, Russell was consecrated titular archbishop of Novi by Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, with co-consecrators Allen Vigneron, Archbishop of Detroit, and Leo Cushley, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh. The post of Nuncio to Azerbaijan was added to his responsibilities on April 7, 2018.
Beginning in 1993 he studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy where he earned his licentiate in canon law and then at the Pontifical Gregorian University for his doctorate in canon law. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See on July 1, 1997, serving briefly in Rome before spending three years at the Apostolic Nunciature to Ethiopia, where he also taught at the national seminary. Assignments in Turkey, Switzerland, and Nigeria followed. On May 2, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI named him chargé d’affaires of the Apostolic Nunciature to China, that is, to Taiwan, the Republic of China, which made him the head of that diplomatic mission.
