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Nuncio
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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.



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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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