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The Apostolic Nunciature to Turkey 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 ...
in
Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
. 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 R ...
, 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 ...
with the rank of an ambassador. Papal representation in the area that later became Turkey was initiated with the creation of the Apostolic Delegation to Constantinople in 1868, at a time when the Holy See had largely ceded the management of Church affairs in the region to the French Catholic Church. It was renamed the Apostolic Delegation to Turkey in 1930. In anticipation of the establishment of diplomatic relations,
Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 19 ...
created the Apostolic Internunciature to Turkey on 29 February 1960.
Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his death in Augus ...
raised it to the full status of Apostolic Nunciature on 30 August 1966.


Representatives of the Holy See

;Apostolic delegates to Constantinople * Augusto Bonetti (6 May 1887 - 19 August 1904) * Giovanni Tacci Porcelli (19 December 1904 – 31 December 1907) * Vincenzo Sardi di Rivisondoli (6 April 1908 – 1914) * Angelo Maria Dolci (10 June 1914 – December 1922) * Ernesto Eugenio Filippi (31 March 1923 - 6 April 1925) *
Angelo Rotta Angelo Rotta (9 August 1872 – 1 February 1965) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. As the Apostolic Nuncio in Budapest at the end of World War II, he was involved in the rescue of the Jews of Budapest from the Nazi Holocaust. He is ...
(9 May 1925 – February/March 1930) * Carlo Margotti (8 March 1930 – 25 July 1934) ;Apostolic delegates to Turkey * Angelo Roncalli (30 November 1934 - 22 December 1944) *
Alcide Marina Alcide Giuseppe Marina, Congregation of the Mission, C.M. (24 March 1887 – 17 September 1950) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked as an educator and superior of the Congregation of the Mission, Vincentians until 1936 and then ...
(18 April 1945 - 22 March 1947) *
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 ...
(3 June 1947 - 9 January 1952) * Paolo Bertoli (24 March 1952 - 7 May 1953) * Giacomo Testa (18 June 1953 - 1959) ;Apostolic delegate and internuncio to Turkey * Francesco Lardone (30 June 1959 - 1966) **He became Internuncio with the erection of the Apostolic Internunciature to Turkey on 29 February 1960. ;Apostolic pro-nuncios to Turkey * Saverio Zupi (30 August 1966 - 17 May 1969) * Salvatore Asta (7 June 1969 - 21 July 1984) ;Apostolic nuncios to Türkiye *
Sergio Sebastiani Sergio Sebastiani (born 11 April 1931) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was head of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See from 1997 to 2008. He was made a cardinal in 2001. From 1960 to 1994 he worked in the d ...
(8 January 1985 - 15 November 1994) *
Pier Luigi Celata Pier Luigi Celata (born 23 January 1937) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who from July 2012 to December 2014 was Vice Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church. He spent much of his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He becam ...
(6 February 1995 - 3 March 1999) * Luigi Conti (15 May 1999 - 8 August 2001) * Edmond Farhat (11 December 2001 - 26 July 2005) * Antonio Lucibello (27 August 2005 - 2015) * Paul Fitzpatrick Russell (19 March 2016 - 22 October 2021) * Marek Solczyński (2 Feb 2022 - present)


See also

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Foreign relations of the Holy See The Holy See has long been recognised as a subject of international law and as an active participant in international relations. One observer has stated that its interaction with the world has, in the period since World War II, been at its highest ...
* List of diplomatic missions of the Holy See


References


External links

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Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
Holy See–Turkey relations