The Apostolic Nuncio to Austria is an ecclesiastical office of the

Roman 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 ...

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. 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 or ...

with the rank of an

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. It originated as the Apostolic Nunciature to the

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of the

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, which was discontinued in 1800.

Apostolic Nuncios to Austria

Mario Alberizzi Mario Alberizzi (1609–1680) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Cardinal Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina (1675–1680), Archbishop (Personal Title) of Tivoli (1676–1679), and Apostolic Nuncio to Austria (1671–1675).

(2 February 1671 – 1675)"Cardinal Mario Alberizzi"
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(26 April 1700 – 1705 ) *

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(15 December 1709 – 21 July 1710) * Giorgio Spínola (26 May 1713 – 20 January 1721) *

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(23 December 1730 – 1738 ) * Camillo Paolucci (20 May 1738 – 20 October 1745) *

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(22 November 1766 – 1773 ) *

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(16 March 1776 – 20 May 1776) *

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(14 February 1785 – 11 August 1800) * Luigi Ruffo-Scilla (23 August 1793 – 9 August 1802) *

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(October 1801 – 8 March 1816) *

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(23 September 1816 – 31 December 1823 Died) *

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(14 November 1826 – 1832 ) *

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(2 September 1832 – 11 July 1836) *

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(18 July 1836 – 1845) *

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(7 May 1845 – 28 September 1855 ) *

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(9 September 1856 – 28 December 1864) *

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, O.S.B. (14 August 1863 – 1873) *

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(27 March 1874 – 16 December 1880 ) *

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(3 December 1880 – 14 March 1887) *

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(23 May 1887 – 25 June 1894) *

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(12 June 1893 – 1896) *

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(24 July 1896 – 1903) * Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte (4 January 1904 – 6 January 1911) * Alessandro Bavona (1911 – 19 January 1912 ) *

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(27 January 1912 – 1916) * Teodoro Valfre di Bonzo (13 September 1916 – 6 March 1920) ;Apostolic Nuncios to Austria *

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(4 December 1920 – 15 December 1922) *

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(16 December 1922 – 1935) *

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(13 June 1935 – 16 May 1938) :''Diplomatic relations ceased from the

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until 1946''. ;Apostolic Internuncios to Austria *

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(4 November 1946 – 22 December 1947) *

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(12 January 1949 – 13 August 1961) **Title changed to apostolic nuncio on 21 December 1951 ;Apostolic Nuncios to Austria *

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(25 September 1961 – 10 December 1976 ) *

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(11 May 1976 – 4 December 1984) *

Michele Cecchini Michele Cecchini (3 March 1920 – 26 April 1989) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who devoted his entire career to the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He became an archbishop in 1969 and served as an Apostolic Nuncio from 1969 unti ...

(4 December 1984 – 26 April 1989 ) *

Donato Squicciarini Donato Squicciarini (24 April 1927 – 5 March 2006) was an Italian Catholic archbishop who acted as Nuncio to Austria from 1989 to 2002. Squicciarini was born at Altamura, Apulia on 24 April 1927. He was ordained priest 12 April 1952, and ordaine ...

(1 July 1989 – 8 October 2002 ) *

Giorgio Zur Giorgio Zur (15 February 1930 – 8 January 2019) was a Catholic archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See. Biography The son of a master tailor, Giorgio Zur studied in Rome at the Gregorian University, where he obtained a licentiate in philos ...

(8 October 2002 – 26 July 2005 ) *

Edmond Farhat Edmond Farhat (20 May 1933 – 17 December 2016) was a Lebanese prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See Biography Farhat was born in Ain Kfaa, Lebanon, on 20 May 1933. On 28 March 1959, the Maro ...

(26 July 2005 – 14 January 2009 ) *

Peter Stephan Zurbriggen Peter Stephan Zurbriggen (27 August 1943 – 28 August 2022) was a Swiss archbishop of the Catholic Church, who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1993 until his retirement in 2018. He was Apostolic Nunzio to Austria fr ...

(14 January 2009 – 30 November 2018) *

Pedro López Quintana Pedro López Quintana (born 27 July 1953) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1984. Since becoming an archbishop in 2003, he has been the head of the papal offices in India, ...

(4 March 2019 – present)

References

External links

Apostolic Nunciature of Austria page at ''gcatholic.org''

Austria–Holy See relations {{Foreignrelations-stub

Apostolic Nuncios to Austria

See also

References

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