WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Aug. 4 confirmed a Cuban-born theologian as the ninth U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Miguel H. Diaz, 45, will be the first theologian and the first Hispanic to serve as American envoy since Washington established formal diplomatic ties with the Holy See in 1984.
A relative unknown before President Obama tapped him in May, Diaz has taught theology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Minnesota since 2004.
He is a board member of the Catholic Theological Society of America and a past president of The Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States.
A first-generation college graduate who immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba as a child, Diaz speaks English, Spanish and Italian fluently.
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