AMERICA/URUGUAY – Sr. Jolanta Elżbieta Płomińska, SSPC, new director of the PMS

Vatican City – On January 27, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization , appointed, Rev. Sr. Jolanta Elżbieta Płomińska, Miss. of St. Peter Claver, as national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Uruguay for the five-year period 2026-2031.
The new director of the PMS in Uruguay is 50 years old and was born in Kodrąb on March 1, 1976. She has vast missionary experience in Cameroon, Brazil, Kenya, e-Swatini, and Cape Verde. She has worked in the formation of missionaries, families, and young people in Nichelino . From 2017 to 2021, she was a formator of young nuns and then Director of the Mater Ecclesiae College under the Dicastery for Evangelization . Since 2022, she has been Superior in Montevideo, and since 2023, she has been part of the Archdiocesan missionary team and the national missionary team. She completed a master’s degree in missionary spirituality at the Pontifical Urbaniana University and the Course for Formators at the Angelicum.

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