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The Apostolic Nunciature to Angola is an ecclesiastical office of the
Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
in
Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ...
. It is a diplomatic post of the
Holy See The Holy See ( lat, Sancta Sedes, ; it, Santa Sede ), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the Pope in his role as the bishop of Rome. It includes the apostolic episcopal see of the Diocese of Rome ...
, whose representative is called the Apostolic
Nuncio An apostolic nuncio ( la, nuntius apostolicus; also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international or ...
with the rank of an
ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...
. The Holy See has full diplomatic ties with Angola as well as most other countries.


Nuncios

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Giovanni De Andrea Giovanni De Andrea (22 April 1928 – 19 January 2012) was an Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishop and diplomat. Education Ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 1951. From 1956 to 1958 he studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Acad ...
(14 April 1975 - 26 January 1983) *
Fortunato Baldelli Fortunato Baldelli (6 August 1935 – 20 September 2012) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was appointed a cardinal in 2010 after a career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1966 to 2009 that included ten years as Apos ...
(12 February 1983 - 20 April 1991) *
Félix del Blanco Prieto Félix del Blanco Prieto (15 June 1937 – 10 April 2021) was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, including stints heading the missions in countries such as Angola and Malta amo ...
(31 May 1991 - 4 May 1996) *
Aldo Cavalli Aldo Cavalli (born 18 October 1946) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1979 and served as an apostolic nuncio from 1996 to 2021. In November 2021 he became Apostolic Visitor to Medjugo ...
(2 July 1996 - 28 June 2001) *
Giovanni Angelo Becciu Giovanni Angelo Becciu (born 2 June 1948) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 28 June 2018. On 24 September 2020, he resigned the rights associated with the cardinalate. An archbishop since 20 ...
(15 October 2001 - 23 July 2009) *
Novatus Rugambwa Novatus Rugambwa (born 8 October 1957) is a Tanzanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and diplomat of the Holy See. Biography Novatus Rugambwa was born on 8 October 1957, in Bukoba, Tanzania, and was ordained a priest on 6 July 1986, for t ...
(20 February 2010 - 5 March 2015) *
Petar Rajič Petar Rajič (born 12 June 1959) in Toronto Canada. Hercegovina-Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He was named Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania on 15 June 2019. On 6 August 2019, he was a ...
(15 June 2015 – 15 June 2019) *
Giovanni Gaspari Giovanni Gaspari (born 6 June 1963) is an Italian priest of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 2001. He was named Apostolic Nuncio to Angola and to São Tomé and Príncipe in September 2020. Biog ...
(21 September 2020 – present)


See also

* Apostolic Nunciature *
Foreign relations of the Holy See The Holy See has long Legal status of the Holy See, been recognised as a subject of international law and as an active participant in international relations. One observer has stated that its interaction with the world has, in the period since Worl ...
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List of diplomatic missions of the Holy See This is a list of diplomatic missions of the Holy See. Since the fifth century, long before the founding of the Vatican City State in 1929, papal envoys (now known as nuncios) have represented the Holy See to foreign potentates. Additionally, p ...
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Roman Catholicism in Angola 250px, Catholic Church in Huambo The Catholic Church in Angola is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Approximately 56.4% of the population profess the Catholic faith, due largely to Angola' ...


References

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Angola–Holy See relations