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The Apostolic Nunciature to the Netherlands is the
diplomatic mission A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually denotes ...
of the
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to the Netherlands. It is located in
The Hague The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...
. The current Apostolic Nuncio is
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Jean-Marie Speich, who was named to the position by
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on 12 April 2025. The
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to the
Kingdom of the Netherlands The Kingdom of the Netherlands (, ;, , ), commonly known simply as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who functions as head of state. The re ...
is an ecclesiastical office of the
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in the Netherlands, with the rank of an
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. The
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serves both as the ambassador of the Holy See to the
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, and as delegate and point-of-contact between the Catholic hierarchy in the Netherlands and the
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.


Representatives


Apostolic Internuncios

* Francesco Capaccini (May 1829 – November 1831) * Carlo Belgrado (12 February 1848 – 28 September 1855) * Settimio Maria Vecchiotti (23 November 1855 – 16 March 1863) * Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano (16 March 1863 – 4 May 1866) * Giacomo Cattani (2 May 1866 – 16 March 1868) * Angelo Bianchi (14 March 1868 – April 1874) * Giovanni Capri (11 August 1874 – 19 September 1879) * Agapito Panici (19 September 1879 – 1881) * Francesco Spolverini (25 April 1882 – 20 July 1887) * Aristide Rinaldini (11 August 1887 – 31 May 1893) * Benedetto Lorenzelli (30 May 1893 – 10 October 1896) * Francesco Tarnassi (24 October 1896 – 1899) * Giovanni Tacci Porcelli (29 April 1911 – 30 July 1916) * Achille Locatelli (30 July 1916 – 13 July 1918) *
Sebastiano Nicotra Sebastiano Nicotra (31 August 1855 – 21 May 1929) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. From 1916 to 1929 he was an apostolic nuncio with the rank of archbishop. Biography Sebastiano ...
(1 October 1918 – 1921) * Roberto Vicentini (19 May 1921 – 1922)


Apostolic Nuncios

* Cesare Orsenigo (23 June 1922 – 2 June 1925) *
Paolo Giobbe Paolo Giobbe (10 January 1880 – 14 August 1972) was an Italian Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Dataria, Papal Datary in the Roman Curia from 1959 to 1968, and was elevated to the Cardinal (Cat ...
(12 August 1935 – 14 November 1959 ) * Giuseppe Beltrami (31 January 1959 – 22 July 1967 ) * Angelo Felici (22 July 1967 – 13 May 1976) * John Gordon (11 June 1976 – 1978) * Bruno Wüstenberg (17 January 1979 – 31 May 1984) * Edward Idris Cassidy (6 November 1984 – 23 March 1988) * Audrys Juozas Bačkis (5 August 1988 – 24 December 1991) *
Henri Lemaître Henri Lemaître (1921 – 2003) was a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. Biography Henri Lemaître was born on 17 October 1921 in Mortsel, Belgium. He studied at the Major Seminar ...
(28 March 1992 – 8 February 1997) *
Angelo Acerbi Angelo Acerbi (born 23 September 1925) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, who has been an archbishop since 1974 and a cardinal since 2024. He served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See as the Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand, th ...
(8 February 1997 – 27 February 2001) * François Bacqué (27 February 2001 – 15 December 2011) * André Dupuy (15 December 2011 – 21 March 2015) * Aldo Cavalli (21 March 2015 – 27 November 2021) * Paul Tschang In-Nam (16 July 2022 – 13 February 2025) * Jean-Marie Speich (12 April 2025 – present)


See also

* Diplomatic mission of the Netherlands to the Holy See


References


External links


Catholic-Hierarchy
Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
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