The Apostolic Nunciature to Mozambique is the

diplomatic mission A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually deno ...

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 ...

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

. The Apostolic Nuncio to Mozambique is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Mozambique, with the rank of an ambassador. The nuncio serves both as the ambassador of the Holy See to the Republic of Mozambique and as the point-of-contact between the Catholic hierarchy in Mozambique and the pope.

List of papal representatives to Mozambique

;Apostolic Delegates *

Francesco Colasuonno Francesco Colasuonno (2 January 1925 – 31 May 2003) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as a Vatican diplomat for more than two decades. He had the personal title of archbishop and at the end of his service became a cardin ...

(6 December 1974 - 7 March 1981) * Giacinto Berloco (15 March 1990 - 17 July 1993) * Peter Stephan Zurbriggen (13 November 1993 - 13 June 1998) ;Apostolic Nuncios *

Juliusz Janusz Juliusz Janusz (born 17 March 1944) is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who has spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He has been an archbishop and held the position of Apostolic Nuncio from 1995 until he retired in ...

(26 September 1998 - 9 April 2003) * George Panikulam (3 July 2003 - 24 October 2008) * Antonio Arcari (12 December 2008 - 5 July 2014) * Edgar Peña Parra (21 February 2015 - 15 August 2018) *

Piergiorgio Bertoldi Piergiorgio Bertoldi (born 26 July 1963) is a Catholic archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See. Biography He was born in Varese, capital of the Province of Varese, on 26 July 1963. He received his priestly ordination by cardinal Car ...

(19 March 2019 – 18 May 2023)

References

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Holy See–Mozambique relations

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