The Apostolic Nunciature to Egypt is an ecclesiastical office of the

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 ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

. 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 org ...

with the rank of an ambassador.

Representatives of the Holy See to Egypt

;Apostolic delegates * Jean-Baptiste Auvergne (29 March 1833 – 7 September 1836) * Perpetuo Guasco (7 June 1839 – 26 August 1859) * Paškal Vujičić (7 September 1860 – 6 August 1866) * Ljudevit Ćurčija (27 July 1866 – 1 May 1881) * Anacleto Chicaro (17 May 1881 – 5 October 1888) * Guido Corbelli (9 Oct 1888 – 22 June 1896) * Gaudenzio Bonfigli (25 February 1896 – 6 April 1904) * Aurelio Briante (23 July 1904 – February 1921) *

Andrea Cassulo Andrea Cassulo (30 November 1869 – 9 January 1952) was an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church and a representative of the Holy See in Egypt, Canada, Romania and Turkey from 1921 to 1952. Biography He was born in Castelletto d'Orba in 1869 and ...

(24 January 1921 – 7 May 1927) *

Valerio Valeri Valerio Valeri (7 November 1883 – 22 July 1963) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious in the Roman Curia from 1953 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate ...

(18 October 1927 – 3 April 1933) * Riccardo Bartoloni (9 April 1933 – 11 October 1933) * Torquato Dini (12 November 1933 – 26 March 1934) *

Gustavo Testa Gustavo Testa (28 July 1886 – 28 February 1969) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, who was made a cardinal in 1959. He spent his career in the Roman Curia. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1920 and held several ...

(4 June 1934 – 23 August 1947) **He continued as apostolic delegate to several countries when he lost responsibility for Egypt with the erection of a nunciature and the appointment of an internuncio. ;Apostolic internuncios * Arthur Hughes (23 August 1947 – 12 July 1949) *

Albert Levame Albert Levame (19 January 1881 – 5 December 1958) was a Monagasque prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. Biography Albert Levame was born in Monaco on 19 January 1881. He studied at the Jesuit Colle ...

(3 October 1949 – 16 June 1954) *

Georges-Marie de Jonghe d'Ardoye Georges-Marie de Jonghe d'Ardoye, MEP (23 April 1887 – 27 August 1961) was a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked as a missionary in China and then held several posts in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. Biography De Jonghe d ...

(2 Mar 1955 – 23 November 1956) *

Silvio Oddi Silvio Angelo Pio Oddi (14 November 1910 – 29 June 2001) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and in the Roman Curia. He became a cardinal in 1969 and headed the Congregation for th ...

(11 January 1957 – 17 May 1962) *

Mario Brini Mario Brini (11 May 1908 – 9 December 1995) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomat in the Secretariat of State of the Holy See and in the Roman Curia. Biography Mario Brini was born in Piombino, Italy, on 11 Ma ...

(13 June 1962 – 2 October 1965) ;Apostolic pro-nuncios *

Lino Zanini Lino Zanini (6 May 1909 – 25 October 1997) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See for 45 years and then oversaw St. Peter's Basilica, including archaeological work and access improvement ...

(4 January 1966 – 7 May 1969) *

Bruno Heim Bruno Bernard Heim (5 March 1911 – 18 March 2003) was the Vatican's first Apostolic Nuncio to Britain and was one of the most prominent armorists of twentieth century ecclesiastical heraldry. He published five books on heraldry and was respons ...

(7 May 1969 – 16 July 1973) *

Achille Glorieux Achille Marie Joseph Glorieux (2 April 1910 – 27 September 1999) was a French prelate who held diplomatic posts of the Catholic Church. Biography Achille Marie Joseph Glorieux was born in Roubaix, France, on 2 April 1910, one of ten children b ...

(3 August 1973 – 1984) * Giovanni Moretti (10 July 1984 – 15 July 1989) *

Antonio Magnoni Antonio Magnoni (13 June 1919 – 18 March 2007) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent forty years of his fifty-year career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, interrupted for a ten-year posting in the Roman Curia. He beca ...

(22 July 1989 – 18 March 1995) ;Apostolic nuncios *

Paolo Giglio Paolo Giglio (20 January 1927 – 6 March 2016) was a Maltese prelate of the Catholic Church, who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1958 to 2002, with the rank of archbishop and nuncio from 1986. Biography Paolo Giglio was b ...

(25 March 1995 – 5 February 2002) *

Marco Dino Brogi Marco Dino Brogi, O.F.M. (12 March 1932 – 29 November 2020) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the Roman Curia and in diplomatic service of the Holy See. Biography Brogi was born in Egypt and was a Latin-rite Catholic. ...

(5 February 2002 – 27 January 2006) *

Michael Louis Fitzgerald Michael Louis Fitzgerald (born 17 August 1937) is a British cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and an expert on Christian–Muslim relations. He has had the rank of archbishop since 2002. At his retirement in 2012, he was the papal nuncio ...

(15 February 2006 – 23 October 2012) *

Jean-Paul Gobel Jean-Paul Aimé Gobel (born 14 May 1943) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. Biography Gobel was born on 14 May 1943 and ordained a priest for the Diocese of Annecy on 29 June 1 ...

(5 January 2013 – 3 January 2015) *

Bruno Musarò Bruno Musarò (born 27 June 1948) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1977 to 2023, with the rank of archbishop and apostolic nuncio from 1994. In retirement, as is customary, ...

(5 February 2015 – 29 August 2019) *

Nicolas Thévenin Nicolas Thevenin (born 5 June 1958) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He has been Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt since 2019. Biography Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thevenin was born on 5 ...

(4 November 2019 – present)

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Egypt–Holy See relations

Representatives of the Holy See to Egypt

See also

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