Apostolic Nunciature to Nicaragua
The Apostolic Nunciature to Nicaragua is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. The nuncio resides in Managua.
The Holy See used a delegate—a member of its diplomatic corps not granted official status by their host country—to represent its interests to church officials, civil society, and the government until it appointed its first Apostolic Nuncio to Nicaragua in 1933. For fifty years the Nuncio held a second appointment as nuncio, usually to Honduras; since April 1986 the Nuncio to Nicaragua has held only that position.
List of papal representatives to Nicaragua
- Apostolic Internuncios to Central America
- Angelo Rotta (13 October 1923 - 9 May 1925)
- Apostolic Nuncios
- Carlo Chiarlo (1938 - 1940)
- Luigi Centoz (3 December 1941[1] - 4 October 1948)[2]
- Liberato Tosti (4 October 1948[2] - 1949)[lower-alpha 1]
- Antonio Taffi (9 January 1950[3] - 1958)[lower-alpha 2]
- Sante Portalupi (29 January 1959[4] - 27 September 1967)
- Lorenzo Antonetti (24 February 1968[5] - 29 June 1973)
- Gabriel Montalvo Higuera (14 June 1974 - 18 March 1980)
- Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (25 October 1980[6] - 4 April 1986)[7]
- Paolo Giglio (4 April 1986[7] - 25 March 1995)[8]
- Luigi Travaglino (2 May 1995[9] - 30 October 2001)[10]
- Jean-Paul Gobel (31 October 2001[11] - 10 October 2007)[12]
- Henryk Józef Nowacki (28 November 2007[13] - 28 June 2012)[14]
- Fortunatus Nwachukwu (12 November 2012[15] - 4 November 2017)[16]
- Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag (15 February 2018[17] - present)
Notes
- Tosti resigned in 1949 at age 65 and died on 20 October 1950.
- Taffi resigned as Nuncio to Honduras and Nicaragua in 1958 at age 60; these were his last positions as nuncio.
References
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). XXXIII. 1941. p. 520. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). XLI. 1949. p. 299. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- "Transferred to Apostolic Delegation in Washington". Catholic News Archive. 13 March 1950. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
Archbishop Antonio Taffi, Apostolic Nuncio recently transferred from Cuba, has left Havana and is expected to arrive soon to present his credentials in Nicaragua and Honduras
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LI. 1959. p. 116. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LX. 1968. p. 225.
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LXXII. 1980. p. 1069. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LXXVIII. 1986. pp. 460, 480. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LXXXVII. 1995. p. 397. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LXXXVII. 1995. p. 599. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- "Rinunce e Nomine, 05.01.2011" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 5 January 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- "Rinunce e Nomine, 31.10.2001" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 31 October 2001. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- "Rinunce e Nomine, 10.10.2007" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 10 October 2007. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- "Rinunce e Nomine, 28.11.2007" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 28 November 2007. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- "Rinunce e Nomine, 28.06.2012" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 28 June 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- "Rinunce e Nomine, 12.11.2012" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- "Resignations and Appointments, 04.11.2017" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 4 November 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- "Resignations and Appointments, 15.02.2018" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
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