The Apostolic Nunciature to Guatemala is an ecclesiastical office of the

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 ...

Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...

. 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 with the rank of an ambassador. The nuncio resides in

Guatemala City Guatemala City (, also known colloquially by the nickname Guate), is the Capital city, national capital and largest city of the Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala. It is also the Municipalities of Guatemala, municipal capital of the Guatemala Depa ...

. The Holy See used a delegate—a member of its diplomatic corps not granted official status by their host country—to represent its interests to church officials, civil society, and the government. The Holy See and the government of Guatemala established diplomatic relations and

Pope Pius XI Pope Pius XI (; born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, ; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939) was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 until his death in February 1939. He was also the first sovereign of the Vatican City State u ...

created the Nunciature to Guatemala on 15 March 1936.

List of papal representatives to Guatemala

;Apostolic Delegates to Central America *

Giovanni Battista Marenco Giovanni Battista Marenco SDB, more often known as Giovanni Marenco (27 April 1853 – 22 October 1921) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the Roman Curia, led an Italian diocese briefly, and then joined the diplomatic se ...

(15 September 1920 – 22 October 1921) * Carlo Chiarlo (28 January 1932 – 30 September 1933) *

Albert Levame Albert Levame (19 January 1881 – 5 December 1958) was a Monagasque prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. Biography Albert Levame was born in Monaco on 19 January 1881. He studied at the Jesuit Coll ...

(21 December 1933 – 15 March 1936) ;Apostolic Nuncios *

(15 March 1936 – 12 November 1939) * Giuseppe Beltrami (20 February 1940 – 15 November 1945) * Giovanni Castellani (18 December 1945 – 23 August 1951) * Gennaro Verolino (5 September 1951 – 25 February 1957) * Giuseppe Paupini (25 February 1957 – 23 May 1959) * Ambrogio Marchioni (1 July 1959 – 1 September 1964) *

Bruno Torpigliani Bruno Torpigliani (15 April 1915 – 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 1964 and served as Apostolic Nuncio to several countries, including th ...

(1 September 1964 – 3 August 1968) *

Girolamo Prigione Girolamo Prigione (12 October 1921 – 27 May 2016) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1951 to 1997. He became an archbishop in 1968 and from then until retirement held po ...

(27 August 1968 – 2 October 1973) *

Emanuele Gerada Emanuele Gerada KC*HS (18 May 1920 – 21 January 2011) was a Maltese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, a Vatican diplomat and titular Archbishop of Nomentum. One Maltese obituary recalled him as "a generous, well-read and intelligent man. ...

(8 November 1973 – 15 October 1980) * Oriano Quilici (26 June 1981 – 11 July 1990) *

Giovanni Battista Morandini Giovanni Battista Morandini (30 June 1937 – 21 October 2024) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He became an archbishop in 1983 and from then until his retirement in ...

(12 September 1990 – 23 April 1997) * Ramiro Moliner Inglés (10 May 1997 – 17 January 2004) *

Bruno Musarò Bruno Musarò (born 27 June 1948) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1977 to 2023, with the rank of archbishop and apostolic nuncio from 1994. In retirement, as is customary, ...

(10 February 2004 – 5 January 2009) *

Paul Richard Gallagher Paul Richard Gallagher, (born 23 January 1954) is a British prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Secretary for Relations with States within the Holy See's Secretariat of State since November 2014. He has worked in the diplomatic servi ...

(19 February 2009 – 11 December 2012) *

Nicolas Thévenin Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thevenin (born 5 June 1958) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He has been Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt since 2019. Biography Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thev ...

(5 January 2013 – 4 November 2019) *

Francisco Montecillo Padilla Francisco Montecillo Padilla (born 17 September 1953) is a Philippine prelate of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1985. He represented the Holy See, either as Apostolic Nuncio or Apostolic Deleg ...

(17 April 2020 – present)

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