Apostolic Nunciature to Guinea-Bissau
The Apostolic Nunciature to Guinea-Bissau is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Guinea-Bissau. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. The title Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea-Bissau is held by the prelate appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Senegal; he resides in Senegal.
List of papal representatives to Guinea-Bissau
[edit]- Apostolic Delegates
- Luigi Barbarito (5 April 1975 - 10 June 1978)
- Luigi Dossena (24 October 1978[1] - 30 December 1985)[2]
- Pablo Puente Buces (15 March 1986 - 31 July 1989)
- Apostolic Pro-Nuncio
- Antonio Maria Vegliò (21 October 1989[3] - 2 October 1997)[4]
- Apostolic Nuncios
- Jean-Paul Gobel (6 December 1997[5] - 31 October 2001)[6]
- Giuseppe Pinto (5 March 2002[7] - 6 December 2007)[8]
- Luis Mariano Montemayor (17 September 2008[9] – 22 June 2015)[10]
- Michael Banach (22 August 2016[11] – 3 May 2022)[12]
- Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag (6 September 2022[13] – present)
References
[edit]- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXVIII. 1986. p. 1000. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXVIII. 1986. p. 131.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXI. 1989. p. 1273. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXIX. 1997. p. 733. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXIX. 1997. p. 66. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 31.10.2001" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 31 October 2001. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 05.03.2002" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 5 March 2002. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 06.12.2007" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 6 December 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 17.09.2008" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 17 September 2008. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 22.06.2015" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ "Rinunce e nomine, 22.08.2016" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. August 22, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
- ^ "Resignations and Appointments, 03.05.2022" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. May 3, 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ "Resignations and Appointments, 06.09.2022" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
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