Apostolic Nunciature to the Dominican Republic
The Apostolic Nunciature to the Dominican Republic is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador.
The Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic is usually also the Apostolic Delegate to Puerto Rico upon his appointment to said nation. The nuncio resides in Santo Domingo.
List of papal representatives to the Dominican Republic
- Apostolic Delegates
- Rocco Cocchia (28 July 1874 – 9 August 1983)
- Bernardino di Milia (13 May 1884 – November 1890)
- Spiridion-Salvatore-Costantino Buhadgiar (28 November 1890 – 10 August 1891)
- Giulio Tonti (10 August 1892 – 21 July 1902)
- Apostolic Nuncios
- Giuseppe Fietta (23 September 1930 – 24 July 1936)[1][a]
- Maurilio Silvani (24 July 1936[1] – 23 May 1942)[4]
- Alfredo Pacini (23 April 1946[5] – 23 April 1949)[6]
- Francesco Lardone (21 May 1949[7] – 27 October 1953)[8]
- Salvatore Siino (27 October 1953[8] – 14 March 1959)[9]
- Lino Zanini (16 June 1959 – 1961)
- Emanuele Clarizio (5 October 1961 – 12 June 1967)
- Antonio del Giudice (19 August 1967 – 2 December 1970)
- Luciano Storero (24 December 1970 – 30 June 1973)
- Giovanni Gravelli (12 July 1973[10] – 11 December 1981)[11]
- Blasco Francisco Collaço (26 July 1982[12] – 28 February 1991)[13]
- Fortunato Baldelli (20 April 1991[14] – 23 April 1994)[15]
- François Bacqué (7 June 1994[16] – 27 February 2001)[17]
- Timothy Broglio (27 February 2001[17] – 19 November 2007)[18]
- Józef Wesołowski (24 January 2008[19] – 21 August 2013)[20]
- Jude Thaddeus Okolo (7 October 2013[21] – 13 May 2017)[22]
- Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader (24 August 2017[23] – 15 February 2023)[24]
- Piergiorgio Bertoldi (18 May 2023[25] – present)
Notes
References
- ^ a b Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXVIII. 1936. pp. 296, 497. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ De Marchi, Giuseppe (1957). Le Nunziature Apostoliche dal 1800 al 1956 (in Italian). Libreria Editrice Vaticana. p. 223. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXXIX. 1947. p. 497. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXXIV. 1942. p. 213. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXXVIII. 1946. pp. 239, 294. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXXXI. 1949. p. 431. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXXXI. 1949. pp. 431, 581. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- ^ a b Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XLV. 1953. pp. 760, 822. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LI. 1959. p. 438. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXV. 1973. p. 414. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXIV. 1982. p. 80. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXIV. 1982. p. 965. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXIII. 1991. p. 374. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXIII. 1991. p. 447. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXVI. 1994. p. 451. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXVI. 1994. p. 614. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ a b "Rinunce e Nomine, 27.02.2001" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. February 27, 2001. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 19.11.2007" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. November 19, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 24.01.2008" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 24 January 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ^ "Santa Sede destituye a nuncio Wesolowski: pugna de tres años con el arzobispo de Puerto Rico provocó su salida". Listín Diario (in Spanish). Santo Domingo. 27 August 2013. Archived from the original on 8 July 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 07.10.2013" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 13.05.2017" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 13 May 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ "Resignations and Appointments, 24.08.2017" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e nomine, 15.02.2023". Retrieved February 15, 2023.
- ^ "Rinunce e nomine, 18.05.2023". Retrieved May 18, 2023.
