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The following is a sortable list of the heads of the diplomatic mission of the Holy See. An apostolic nuncio (also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat , serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international organization.
Under the system of diplomatic ranks established by the Congress of Vienna (1815), an envoy was a diplomat of the second class who had plenipotentiary powers, i.e., full authority to represent the government. However, envoys did not serve as the personal representative of their country's head of state. [1]
1 Abba Eban: 1949–1959 Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjöld: David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett: 2 Michael Comay: 1960–1967 U Thant: David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol: 3 Gideon Rafael: 1967–1968 U Thant Levi Eshkol 4 Yosef Tekoah: 1968–1975 U Thant, Kurt Waldheim: Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin: 5 Chaim Herzog: 1975–1978 Kurt Waldheim ...
Diplomatic rank is a system of professional and social rank used in the world of diplomacy and international relations.A diplomat's rank determines many ceremonial details, such as the order of precedence at official processions, table seatings at state dinners, the person to whom diplomatic credentials should be presented, and the title by which the diplomat should be addressed.
Diplomatic mission located in a major city, usually other than the capital city, which provides a full range of consular services. Consulate Diplomatic mission that is similar to a consulate general but may not provide a full range of services. Legation Diplomatic representative office of lower rank than an embassy.
Pro-nuncio was a term used from 1965 to 1991 for a papal diplomatic representative of full ambassadorial rank accredited to a country that did not accord him precedence over other ambassadors and de jure deanship of the diplomatic corps. In those countries, the papal representative's precedence within the corps is no different from that of the ...
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. [1]
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