HONG KONG (SE): For the Catholic Church, he was the de facto representative of the pope to mainland China. Monsignor Ante Jozic, who spent a tempestuous decade in the city of Hong Kong seeking to bridge the great Sino-Vatican divide, has to his credit accomplished a giant leap forward, helping to engineer the signing of the provisional agreement between Beijing and the Holy See in late September last year.
 
Having seen this through, he was made an archbishop by the Holy See and named the apostolic nuncio to the Republic of Ivory Coast, West Africa on February 2.  
 
Monsignor Jozic succeeded Monsignor Eugene Nugent as the head of Holy See Study Mission in Hong Kong in 2009. Given the peculiar situation in China during his 10 years in the office,...