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Nuncio
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nuncio
RC Church a diplomatic representative of the Holy See, ranking above an internuncio and esp having ambassadorial status

Nuncio 

a permanent diplomatic representative of the pope in states with which the papacy maintains official diplomatic relations.

The nuncio corresponds in diplomatic rank to an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. The institution of the permanent representation of a nuncio appeared in the first half of the 16th century. In most Catholic countries, nuncios represent the senior officials (doyens) of the diplomatic corps.



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His visit will be "a gesture of solidarity and an occasion for the Holy Father to meet with a category of people that sometimes is suffering more than the rest of the people," according to Papal Nuncio Archbishop Antonio Franco.
Among those in attendance were the catholicos-patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church, Nerses Bedros XIX; the papal nuncio (or Vatican ambassador) to Lebanon.
He has published three volumes of papal bulls and letters from 1198 to 1415 that he found in the Archives nationales de Paris, as well as the correspondance as papal nuncio in France from 1601 to 1604 of Innocenzo del Bufalo, and the letters of Henri IV concerning relations between the papacy and France.
 
 
 
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