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NUNCIO. The name given to the Pope's ambassador. Nuncios are ordinary or extraordinary; the former are sent upon usual missions, the latter upon special occasions. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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One of his earliest decisions as pope, it pointed out, was to move Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, one of the Catholic Church's leading experts on Islam and head of its council on interreligious dialogue, away from the center of influence in Rome, to Egypt as a papal nuncio. We have informed the Papal Nuncio and the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy about this situation. Of German background, and trained as a lawyer, Riegner followed Vatican matters closely and had appealed to the Holy See during the war through the offices of Archbishop Filippo Bernardini, the papal nuncio in Berne. |
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