The Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See to Bangladesh is the diplomatic mission of the
Holy See to
Bangladesh, equivalent to an embassy. It is located at U.N. Road 2, Baridhara, Dhaka 1212. The position of Apostolic Nuncio is currently vacant.
The Apostolic Nunciature to Bangladesh is an ecclesiastical office of the
Catholic Church in Bangladesh, with the rank of ambassador. The
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 ...
serves both as the ambassador of the
Pope (as head of state of
Vatican City) to the
President of Bangladesh, and as delegate and point-of-contact between the Catholic hierarchy in Bangladesh and the Pope (as head of the church).
The Holy See established the Apostolic Nunciature to Bangladesh on 2 March 1973.
List of papal representatives
;Apostolic Pro-Nuncios
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Edward Idris Cassidy (2 February 1973 – 25 March 1979)
;Apostolic Nuncios
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Luigi Accogli (6 July 1979 – 17 June 1988)
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Piero Biggio
Piero Biggio (29 June 1937 – 18 April 2007) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.
Biography
Piero Biggio was born on 29 June 1937 in Calasetta, Province of Carbonia-Iglesias, Sa ...
(10 December 1988 – 23 April 1992)
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Adriano Bernardini
Adriano Bernardini (born 13 August 1942) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who occupied positions in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from the 1970s until he retired in 2017. His first assignment as Apostolic Nuncio was to Ban ...
(20 August 1992 – 15 June 1996)
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Edward Joseph Adams
Edward Joseph Adams (born August 24, 1944) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1976. He was the apostolic nuncio to Great Britain from 2017 to 2020 and held earlier ...
(24 August 1996 – 22 August 2002)
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Paul Tschang In-Nam
Paul Tschang In-Nam (born 30 October 1949) is a Korean prelate of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1985, with the title of archbishop and the rank of apostolic nuncio since 2002.
He is the fi ...
(19 October 2002 – 27 August 2007)
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Joseph Marino (12 January 2008
– 16 January 2013)
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George Kocherry
George Kocherry (born 4 February 1945) is an Indian prelate of the Syro-Malabar Church who joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1978 and became an archbishop and nuncio in 2000. After serving as apostolic nuncio to Togo, Ghana, a ...
(6 July 2013 – 24 August 2022)
See also
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Apostolic Nunciature to Pakistan
The Apostolic Nunciature to Pakistan is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Pakistan. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador.
The Nunciature was ...
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Bangladesh–Holy See relations
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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 ...
Notes
References
External links
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Catholic-Hierarchy
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