The Apostolic Nunciature to Argentina the

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of the

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to Argentina. It is located at the Fernández Anchorena Palace, in

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. The current Apostolic Nuncio is Archbishop

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, who was named to the position by

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on 22 February 2020. The Apostolic Nunciature to the

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is an ecclesiastical office of the

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, with the rank of an

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. The nuncio serves both as the ambassador of the Holy See to the President of Argentina, and as delegate and point-of-contact between the

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and the

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History

Papal representatives to Argentina

;Apostolic Delegates * Lodovico Maria Besi (9 July 1850 – 26 May 1851) *

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(26 May 1851 – 17 June 1856) * Vincenzo Massoni (26 September 1856 – 3 June 1857) * Marino Marini (14 August 1857 – 27 March 1865) * Angelo Di Pietro (31 December 1877 – 30 September 1879) *

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(19 September 1879 – 14 October 1884) ;Apostolic Internuncios *

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(24 April 1900 – 9 November 1906) * Achille Locatelli (22 November 1906 – 8 July 1916) *

Alberto Vassallo-Torregrossa Alberto Vassallo di Torregrossa (28 December 1865, San Cataldo, Sicily - 7 September 1959, San Cataldo) was an Italian prelate and church diplomat. He was the last papal nuncio to Munich. Life The son of baron Rosario Vassallo di Torregrossa and ...

(2 May 1916 – 6 August 1920) ** became nuncio on 5 July 1916 ;Apostolic Nuncios *

Beda Giovanni Cardinale Beda Giovanni Cardinale (30 July 1869 – 1 December 1933), also Giovanni Beda Cardinale, was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who headed dioceses in Italy from 1907 to 1922 and then served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See in Latin ...

, O.S.B. (25 July 1922 – 29 August 1925) *

Filippo Cortesi Filippo Cortesi (8 Octobter 1876 – 1 February 1947) was the Apostolic Nuncio to Poland from December 24, 1936 to February 1, 1947. Cortesi earlier served as nuncio to Paraguay in the interim. Cortesi was the only Apostolic Nuncio to Poland, nu ...

(19 October 1926 – 4 June 1936) *

Giuseppe Fietta Giuseppe Fietta (6 November 1883 – 1 October 1960) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1924 to 1958, including a stint as Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina from 1936 to 1953. He ...

(20 June 1936 – 26 January 1953) * Mario Zanin (7 February 1953 – 4 August 1958) *

Umberto Mozzoni Umberto Mozzoni (29 June 1904 – 7 November 1983) was an Argentina, Argentine Cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil from 1969 to 1973, and was made a Cardinal (Catholicism), car ...

(20 September 1958 – 19 April 1969) *

Lino Zanini Lino Zanini (6 May 1909 – 25 October 1997) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See for 45 years and then oversaw St. Peter's Basilica, including archaeological work and access improvement ...

(7 May 1969 – 29 December 1973) * Pio Laghi (27 April 1974 – 10 December 1980) * Ubaldo Calabresi (23 January 1981 – 4 March 2000) *

Santos Abril y Castelló Santos Abril y Castelló (born 21 September 1936) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church. After a career in the diplomatic corps of the Holy See, he held a number of positions in the Roman Curia and from 2011 to 2016 was Archpriest of the ...

(4 March 2000 – 9 April 2003) *

Adriano Bernardini Adriano Bernardini (born 13 August 1942) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who occupied positions in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from the 1970s until he retired in 2017. His first assignment as Apostolic Nuncio was to Bangl ...

(26 April 2003 – 15 November 2011) *

Emil Paul Tscherrig Emil Paul Tscherrig (born 3 February 1947) is a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who has spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He became an archbishop in 1996 and has since held assignments as Apostolic Nuncio to sever ...

(5 January 2012 – 12 September 2017) *

Léon Kalenga Badikebele Léon Kalenga Badikebele (17 July 1956 – 12 June 2019) was a Congolese prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He held the rank of Apostolic Nuncio beginning in 2008 and was Nuncio to Argentina from 2 ...

(17 March 2018 – 12 June 2019) *

(22 February 2020 – present)

References

External links

Nunciature to Argentina page at ''catholic-hierarchy.org''

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

Catholic Church in Argentina Argentina–Holy See relations {{Argentina-poli-stub

History

Papal representatives to Argentina

See also

References

External links