Adolfo Tito Yllana

Who is Adolfo Tito Yllana?

Adolfo Tito Yllana was born on February 6, 1948 in Naga City, Philippines. He is a Roman Catholic archbishop, and is presently the Apostolic Nuncio to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He undertook religious studies from the Holy Rosary Seminary also in the same city. On March 19, 1972 he was ordained a priest for the archdiocese of Nueva Caceres. He went on to obtain a doctorate in Civil and Canon Law from Lateran University in Rome. He started his diplomatic career after finishing his studies at the Academia Ecclesiastica, the premier academy for the diplomatic corps in the Vatican. His first diplomatic posts were in Ghana, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Lebanon, Hungary and Taiwan.

On December 13, 2001 he was appointed titular archbishop of Montecorvino and Apostolic Nuncio to Papua New Guinea. Pope John Paul II conferred episcopal ordination on him on January 6, 2002, at the patriarchal Basilica of Saint Peter at the Vatican.

The Coat-of-Arms of Archbishop Yllana was designed by Cardinal Andrea de Montezemolo. The colors in the four parts indicate the faith as the beginning of grace coming from God and pervades everything, to which the human will responds to in the practice of the virtues.