Giambattista Diquattro

Giambattista Diquattro
Apostolic Nuncio to India
See	Titular Archbishop of Giru Mons
Orders
Ordination	24 August 1981 by Angelo Rizzo
Consecration	4 June 2005 by Angelo Sodano
Personal details
Born	(1954-03-18) March 18, 1954 Bologna, Italy
Previous post	Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia Apostolic Nuncio to Panama
Motto	Nomen meum tene
Coat of arms

Giambattista Diquattro is an Italian archbishop and Vatican diplomat. On 21 January 2017, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal by Pope Francis.^[1] Prior to that he was Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia.

Biography

Diquattro was born on 18 March 1954, in Bologna, the capital and the largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy and was ordained a priest for the diocese of Ragusa in 1981.^[2] He received his master's degree in civil law from the University of Catania, his Doctorate in Canon Law (JCD) from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, and his master's degree in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.^[3]

He joined the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See on 1 May 1985, and served in diplomatic missions in the pontifical representations to the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad, the United Nations in New York, and later in the Vatican Secretariat of State, and in the Apostolic Nunciature in Italy. He was appointed as the apostolic nuncio to Panama in 2005 by Pope John Paul II and apostolic nuncio to Bolivia in 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI.

References

External links

• catholic-hierarchy.org ^{[self-published]}