The Apostolic Nunciature to Switzerland 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 ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, 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 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 nunciature is located in the capital of

Bern german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese , neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen , website ...

List of papal representatives to Switzerland

* Antonio Pucci (1517 - 1521) *** *Paolo Odescalchi (1553 - 15 June 1560) *Ottaviano della Raverta (1553 - 1560) *Giovanni Antonio Volpi (25 March 1560 – July 1579) *Giovanni Francesco Bonomigni (27 May 1579 – 16 September 1581) *Giovanni Battista Santorio (17 August 1586 – 15 August 1587) *

Ottavio Paravicini Ottavio Paravicini (1552–1611) was a Roman Catholic cardinal. Early life Born into the noble family from Valtellina, he was the son of Giovanni Michele Paravicini and Lomellina Laudata of Gaeta. Biography On 15 Jul 1584, he was consecrated b ...

(August 1587 – 20 June 1591) *Owen Lewis (20 June 1591 – 14 October 1595) *Giovanni della Torre (10 November 1595 – 10 June 1606) * Fabrizio Verallo (10 June 1606 – 24 June 1608) *

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(1608 - 15 September 1613) *Ludovico Sarego (15 September 1613 – 15 April 1621) *Alessandro Scappi (15 April 1621 – 28 June 1628) *

Ciriaco Rocci Ciriaco Rocci (August 8, 1582 – September 25, 1651) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal and papal Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland and Holy Roman Empire. Life Rocci was born on 8 August 1582 in Rome and studied law before entering the service of ...

(28 June 1628 – 18 May 1630) *Ranuccio Scotti Douglas (22 May 1630 – 4 May 1639) *

Girolamo Farnese Girolamo Farnese (1599–1668) was a Roman Catholic cardinal. Biography On 26 Apr 1639, was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Battista Scanaroli, Titular Bishop of ''Sidon'', with Tommaso Carafa, Bishop Emeritus of Vulturara e Montecorvino, and ...

(4 May 1639 – 28 October 1643) *Lorenzo Gavotti, C.R. (28 October 1643 – 7 November 1646) *Alfonso Sacrati (7 November 1646 – 14 September 1647) *Francesco Boccapaduli (14 September 1647 – September 1652) *Jost Knab (September 1652 – April 1653) *

Carlo Carafa della Spina Carlo Carafa della Spina (1611–1680) was a Roman Catholic cardinal. Biography On 1 Jan 1645, he was consecrated bishop by Ciriaco Rocci, Cardinal-Priest of San Salvatore in Lauro, with Fabio Lagonissa, Titular Patriarch of Antioch, and Alfonso ...

, C.R. (1 February 1653 – November 1654) *

Federico Borromeo (iuniore) Federico Borromeo, iuniore (29 May 1617 – 18 February 1673) was a Roman Catholic cardinal. Biography On 30 Nov 1654, he was consecrated bishop by Francesco Peretti di Montalto, Archbishop of Monreale, with Giovan Battista Foppa, Archbishop ...

(28 November 1654 – 20 August 1665) *

Federico Baldeschi Colonna Federico Ubaldo Baldeschi Colonna (2 September 1625 – 4 October 1691) was an Italian people, Italian Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal who was adopted by the noble Colonna family. Early life He was born on S ...

(15 July 1665 – March 1668) *Rodolpho Acquaviva (15 April 1668 – August 1670) *Odoardo Cibo (11 August 1670 - 1679) *

Giacomo Cantelmo Giacomo Cantelmo (13 June 1645 – 11 December 1702) was a Roman Catholic cardinal from 1690 to 1702. Biography Giacomo Cantelmo was born in Naples on 13 June 1645, the son of Fabrizio Cantelmo, 5th Duke of Popoli and prince of Pettorano, an ...

(18 April 1685 – 10 December 1687) *Bartolomeo Menatti (12 February 1689 – March 1692) * Marcello d'Aste (23 February 1692 – May 1695) *

Michelangelo dei Conti Pope Innocent XIII ( la, Innocentius XIII; it, Innocenzo XIII; 13 May 1655 – 7 March 1724), born as Michelangelo dei Conti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 May 1721 to his death in March 1724. He is ...

(26 June 1695 – November 1697) *

Giulio Piazza Giulio Piazza (1663–1726) was a Roman Catholic cardinal. Biography On 22 Dec 1697, he was consecrated bishop by Gasparo Carpegna, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere, with Gregorio Giuseppe Gaetani de Aragonia, Titular Patriarch of ...

(25 January 1698 – 4 June 1703) *

Vincenzo Bichi Vincenzo is an Italian male given name, derived from the Latin name Vincentius (the verb ''vincere'' means to win or to conquer). Notable people with the name include: Art * Vincenzo Amato (born 1966), Italian actor and sculptor *Vincenzo Bell ...

(5 January 1703 – 2 December 1709) *Giacomo Caracciolo (10 May 1710 – 25 November 1716) *Giuseppe Firrao (20 October 1716 – 15 November 1720) *

Domenico Silvio Passionei Domenico Silvio Passionei (2 December 1682 – 5 July 1761) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Biography Born in Fossombrone near Urbino, Marche, he went to Rome in 1695, where he studied philosophy at the Collegio Clementino ...

(30 July 1721 – 28 October 1730) *

Giovanni Battista Barni Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of ...

(22 February 1731 – 1 April 1739) *

Carlo Francesco Durini Carlo is a given name. It is an Italian form of Charles. It can refer to: * Carlo (name) *Monte Carlo * Carlingford, New South Wales, a suburb in north-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia *A satirical song written by Dafydd Iwan about Prince ...

(1 August 1739 – 29 March 1744) *

Filippo Acciaioli Filippo is an Italian male given name, which is the equivalent of the English name Philip, from the Greek ''Philippos'', meaning "amante dei cavalli".''Behind the Name''"Given Name Philip" Retrieved on 23 January 2016. The female variant is Fil ...

(22 January 1744 – 25 April 1754) *

Girolamo Spínola Girolamo is an Italian variant of the name Hieronymus. Its English equivalent is Jerome. It may refer to: * Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler * Girolamo Cassar (c. 1520 – after ...

(25 February 1754 – 24 August 1754) *

Giovanni Ottavio Bufalini Giovanni Ottavio Bufalini (17 January 1709, in Città di Castello – 3 August 1782) was an Italian cardinal. Giovanni Ottavio was not ordained a priest until the age of 45 years in 1754. He was rapidly named Archbishop of Chalcedon, apostolic n ...

(19 December 1754 – 4 November 1759) *Niccolò Oddi, S.J. (21 December 1759 – January 1764) *Giambattista Donati (February 1764 – November 1764) *Luigi Valenti Gonzaga (18 August 1764 – November 1773) *

Giovanni Battista Caprara Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli (1733 – 1810) was an Italian statesman and Cardinal and archbishop of Milan from 1802 to 1810. As a papal diplomat he served in the embassies in Cologne, Lausanne, and Vienna. As Legate of Pius VII in Fra ...

(6 September 1775 – 7 May 1785) *Giuseppe Vinci (6 July 1785 – January 1794) *Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri ( 1794 - 1795) *

Pietro Gravina Pietro is an Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People * Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice * Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death * Pietro II C ...

(20 September 1794 – 1 March 1803) *

Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata (1 April 1757 - 3 August 1843) was a native of Malta and a bishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Roman Catholic Diocese of Senigallia, Bishop of Senigallia from 1818 until his death in 1843. Biography ...

(20 September 1803 - 1815) *Carlo Zen (13 March 1816 – 27 August 1817) *

Vincenzo Macchi Vincenzo Macchi (30 August 1770 – 30 September 1860) was an Italian Cardinal. Career Born on 30 August 1770 in Capodimonte in the Papal States, he studied in Montefiascone and in Rome and was ordained a priest in 1794. In 1801 he gai ...

(8 August 1818 – 22 November 1819) * Ignazio Nasalli-Ratti (21 January 1820 – 25 June 1827) *

Pietro Ostini File:Kardinal Pietro Ostini.jpg, Pietro Ostini Pietro Ostini (27 April 1775 – 5 March 1849) was an Italian papal diplomat and Cardinal. Ostini was born in Rome on 27 April 1775. He was educated at the Collegio Romano. He was Professor ...

(30 January 1827 – 17 July 1829) *

Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi (1787–1849) was an Italian prelate who rose to the highest ranks of the Catholic Church during the first half of the 19th century. Life and career Born in Ceccano, near Frosinone, at the time part of the Papal States, h ...

(21 August 1827 – 15 September 1828) * Filippo de Angelis (23 April 1830 – 15 February 1838) *

(31 May 1839 – 23 April 1841) * Girolamo d'Andrea (30 July 1841 – 30 August 1845) *Alessandro Macioti (21 October 1845 – 11 April 1856) *

Luigi Maglione Luigi Maglione (2 March 1877 – 22 August 1944) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935 and served as the Vatican Secretary of State under Pope Pius XII from 1939 until his death. Pius ...

(1 September 1920 – 24 May 1926) *

Pietro di Maria Pietro is an Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People * Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice * Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death * Pietro II Ca ...

(3 June 1926 – 1 September 1935) *

Filippo Bernardini Filippo Bernardini (11 November 1884 – 26 August 1954) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He spent almost his entire career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and was given the rank of archbishop in 1933. He was Apostolic Dele ...

(10 October 1935 – 15 January 1953) *

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 ...

(6 March 1953 - 1959) *

Alfredo Pacini Alfredo Pacini (10 February 1888 – 23 December 1967) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Nuncio to Switzerland from 1960 to 1967, and made a cardinal in 1967. Biography Alfredo Pacini was born in Capann ...

(4 February 1960 - 1967) *

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 ...

(30 June 1967 – September 1984) *

Edoardo Rovida Edoardo Rovida (born 26 August 1927) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1953 to 2002. Biography Edoardo Rovida was born on 26 August 1927 in Alessandria, Italy, and was ordai ...

(26 January 1985 – 15 March 1993) *

Karl-Josef Rauber Karl-Josef Rauber (11 April 1934 – 26 March 2023) was a German prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an apostolic nuncio from 1982 until his retirement in 2009. He was created a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2015. Biography After gradu ...

(16 March 1993 – 25 April 1997) *

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 ...

(8 July 1997 – 2 November 1998) *

Pier Giacomo De Nicolò Pier Giacomo De Nicolò (11 March 1929 – 3 April 2021) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, including stints as Apostolic Nuncio in Costa Rica, Syria, and Switzerland. Biog ...

(21 January 1999 – 8 September 2004) *

Francesco Canalini Francesco Canalini (born 23 March 1936) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. Biography Francesco Canalini was born in Osimo, Italy, on 23 March 1936. He was ordained a pr ...

(8 September 2004 – April 2011) *

Diego Causero Diego Causero (born 13 January 1940) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. From 1992 to 2015, he served as the head of the Vatican's diplomatic mission in several African a ...

(28 May 2011 – 5 September 2015) *

Thomas Gullickson Thomas Edward Gullickson (born August 14, 1950) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as an apostolic nuncio in the Holy See diplomatic corps since 2004. Gullickson was posted to Switzerland and Liechtenstein from ...

(5 September 2015 - 31 December 2020) *

Martin Krebs Martin Krebs (born 2 November 1956) is a German prelate of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1991. He has been an archbishop since 2008 when he received the first of several postings as a papal n ...

(3 March 2021 – present)

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