The Apostolic Nunciature to Angola is an ecclesiastical office of the

Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

. It is a diplomatic post of the

Holy See The Holy See (, ; ), also called the See of Rome, the Petrine See or the Apostolic See, is the central governing body of the Catholic Church and Vatican City. It encompasses the office of the pope as the Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishop ...

, whose representative is called the Apostolic

Nuncio An apostolic nuncio (; 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 organization. A nuncio is ...

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 so ...

. The Holy See has full diplomatic ties with Angola as well as most other countries. The Apostolic Nuncio to Angola is usually also the Apostolic Nuncio to

São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main isla ...

upon his appointment to said nation.

Nuncios

* Giovanni De Andrea (14 April 1975 - 26 January 1983) *

Fortunato Baldelli Fortunato Baldelli (6 August 1935 – 20 September 2012) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was appointed a cardinal in 2010 after a career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1966 to 2009 that included ten years as Apo ...

(12 February 1983 - 20 April 1991) * Félix del Blanco Prieto (31 May 1991 - 4 May 1996) * Aldo Cavalli (2 July 1996 - 28 June 2001) *

Giovanni Angelo Becciu Giovanni Angelo Becciu (, ; born 2 June 1948) is a Sardinian Catholic prelate and convicted felon who was prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints from 2018 until his resignation under duress in 2020. Pope Francis had made him a car ...

(15 October 2001 - 23 July 2009) * Novatus Rugambwa (20 February 2010 - 5 March 2015) *

Petar Rajič Petar Antun Rajič (born 12 June 1959) is a Croatian/Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1993. He was named Apostolic Nuncio to Apostolic Nunciature to Italy, Italy and Apostolic ...

(15 June 2015 – 15 June 2019) * Giovanni Gaspari (21 September 2020 – 2 March 2024) * Kryspin Witold Dubiel (1 July 2024 – present)

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Angola–Holy See relations

Nuncios

See also

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