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Represented the Austrian Archduke Charles, which the Pope had recognized as King of Spain. 1717 1725 Francesco Acquaviva d'Aragona: 1726 1732 Marco Cornelio Bentivoglio [12] 1732 1734 Luis Antonio de Belluga y Moncada: 1735 1747 Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona [13] 1747 1748 Alfonso Clemente de Aróstegui: 1748 1760 Joaquín Fernández Portocarrero ...
It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries the holders of the office have gone on to become cardinals with positions in the Roman Curia. The Apostolic Nuncio to Spain is usually also the Apostolic Nuncio to Andorra upon his ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions of the Holy See. Since the fifth century, long before the founding of the Vatican City State in 1929, papal envoys (now known as nuncios) have represented the Holy See to foreign potentates. Additionally, papal representatives known not as nuncios but as apostolic delegates ensure contact between the Holy ...
Embassy of Spain to the Holy See in Rome. The Spanish Inquisition was an ecclesiastical tribunal started in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile for the newly united Kingdom of Spain.
The official name of the Palmarian Church in the register of religious entities in the Kingdom of Spain is the Iglesia Cristiana Palmariana de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz (English: Palmarian Christian Church of the Carmelites of the Holy Face).
The Holy See [7] [8] (Latin: Sancta Sedes, lit. 'Holy Chair [9] ', Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈsaŋkta ˈsedes]; Italian: Santa Sede [ˈsanta ˈsɛːde]), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, [10] is the central governing body of the Catholic Church and the Vatican City State. [11]
A papal nuncio (officially known as an apostolic nuncio) is a permanent diplomatic representative (head of diplomatic mission) of the Holy See to a state or to one of two international intergovernmental organizations, the European Union or ASEAN, having the rank of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, and the ecclesiastical rank of ...
The Order of Santiago (/ ˌ s ɒ n t i ˈ ɑː ɡ oʊ /; Spanish: Orden de Santiago [sanˈtjaɣo]) is a religious and military order founded in the 12th century. It owes its name to the patron saint of Spain, Santiago (St. James the Greater).