The Apostolic Nunciature to Guatemala 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 ...

Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...

. 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 with the rank of an ambassador. The nuncio resides in

Guatemala City Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), known locally as Guatemala or Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, nest ...

. 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. The Holy See and the government of Guatemala established diplomatic relations and

Pope Pius XI Pope Pius XI ( it, Pio XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to his death in February 1939. He was the first sovereign of Vatican City fro ...

created the Nunciature to Guatemala on 15 March 1936.

List of papal representatives to Guatemala

;Apostolic Delegates to Central America * Giovanni Battista Marenco (15 September 1920 – 22 October 1921) *

Carlo Chiarlo Carlo Chiarlo (4 November 1881 – 21 January 1964) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as nuncio to several countries, mostly Latin American, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. Biography Born in Pontre ...

(28 January 1932 – 30 September 1933) *

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 ...

(21 December 1933 – 15 March 1936) ;Apostolic Nuncios *

(15 March 1936 – 12 November 1939) *

Giuseppe Beltrami Giuseppe Beltrami (17 January 1889 – 13 December 1973) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as internuncio to the Netherlands from 1959 to 1967, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967. Biography Born in Fos ...

(20 February 1940 – 15 November 1945) *

Giovanni Castellani Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani O.F.M. (13 April 1888 – 30 August 1953) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, who became an archbishop in 1929 and led jurisdictions in Greece and Ethiopia. He worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy ...

(18 December 1945 – 23 August 1951) *

Gennaro Verolino Gennaro Verolino (3 November 1906, in Naples – 17 November 2005, in Rome) was a Roman Catholic bishop and a diplomat for the Holy See. Life Growing up in Acerra, his mother's birthplace, he studied at the seminary there and then at the Jesuit ...

(5 September 1951 – 25 February 1957) *

Giuseppe Paupini Giuseppe Paupini (25 February 1907 – 18 July 1992) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent most of his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See before taking a position in the Roman Curia as Major Penitentiary of t ...

(25 February 1957 – 23 May 1959) *

Ambrogio Marchioni Ambrogio Marchioni (31 August 1911 – 2 May 1995) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He was made an archbishop in 1961 and served as Apostolic Nuncio to several countries from 1959 to ...

(1 July 1959 – 1 September 1964) *

Bruno Torpigliani Bruno Torpigliani (15 April 1915 – 2 May 1995) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He was made an archbishop in 1964 and served as Apostolic Nuncio to several countries, including the ...

(1 September 1964 – 3 August 1968) *

Girolamo Prigione Girolamo Prigione (12 October 1921 – 27 May 2016) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1951 to 1997. He became an archbishop in 1968 and from then until retirement held pos ...

(27 August 1968 – 2 October 1973) *

Emanuele Gerada Emanuele Gerada KC*HS (18 May 1920 – 21 January 2011) was a Maltese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, a Vatican diplomat and titular Archbishop of Nomentum. One Maltese obituary recalled him as "a generous, well-read and intelligent man. ...

(8 November 1973 – 15 October 1980) *

Oriano Quilici Oriano Quilici (29 November 1929 – 2 November 1998) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. Biography Oriano Quilici was born on 29 November 1929 in the San Pietro a Vico quart ...

(26 June 1981 – 11 July 1990) *

Giovanni Battista Morandini Giovanni Battista Morandini (born 30 June 1937) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He became an archbishop in 1983 and from then until his retirement in 2008 served terms ...

(12 September 1990 – 23 April 1997) *

Ramiro Moliner Inglés Ramiro Moliner Inglés (born 13 March 1941) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career working in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. Biography Ramiro Moliner Inglés was born on 13 March 1941 in Castelserás, Provin ...

(10 May 1997 – 17 January 2004) *

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, ...

(10 February 2004 – 5 January 2009) *

Paul Richard Gallagher Paul Richard Gallagher, (born 23 January 1954) is an English prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Secretary for Relations with States within the Holy See's Secretariat of State (Holy See), Secretariat of State since November 2014. He ha ...

(19 February 2009 – 11 December 2012) *

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 ...

(5 January 2013 – 4 November 2019) *

Francisco Montecillo Padilla Francisco Montecillo Padilla (born 17 September 1953) is a Philippine prelate of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1985. He represented the Holy See, either as Apostolic Nuncio or Apostolic Delega ...

(17 April 2020 – present)

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