The Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium is the holder of a diplomatic position within the Catholic Church, who acts as Ambassador of the Holy See to the Belgium.
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Diplomatic relations between the Belgian state (1830) and the Holy See began in 1835. Until then, diplomatic relations for Catholics living on Belgian territories were secured by the vice-superior of the Dutch Mission.
The Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium is usually also the Apostolic Nuncio to Luxembourg upon his appointment to said nation
Papal representatives to Belgium
- Apostolic Internuncios
- Pasquale Gizzi (1835–1837)
- Apostolic Nuncios
- Raffaele Fornari (1842–1843)
- Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci (28 Jan 1843 – 1846), later Pope Leo XIII
- Innocenzo Ferrieri (15 November 1848 – 30 September 1850)
- Matteo Eustachio Gonella (13 June 1850 – 1 October 1861)
- Mieczyslaw Halka Ledóchowski (1 October 1861 – 8 January 1866)
- Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano (15 May 1866 – 29 May 1868)
- Giacomo Cattani (24 July 1868 – 27 April 1875)
- Serafino Vannutelli (10 September 1875 – 3 December 1880)
- Domenico Ferrata (14 April 1885 – 20 April 1889)
- Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè † (4 May 1889)
- Benedetto Lorenzelli (30 May 1893 – 1 October 1896)
- Aristide Rinaldini (14 August 1896 – 28 December 1899)
- Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte (10 November 1899)
- Antonio Vico (4 February 1904 – 21 October 1907)
- Giovanni Tacci Porcelli (31 December 1907 – 29 April 1911)
- Achille Locatelli (8 July 1916[1] – 13 July 1918)
- Sebastiano Nicotra (1 October 1918[2] – July 1923)
- Angelo Dolci (14 December 1922 – 30 May 1923)[3]
- Clemente Micara (30 May 1923[4] – 11 November 1950)
- Fernando Cento (9 March 1946[5] – 26 October 1953)
- Efrem Forni (9 November 1953 – 19 March 1962)
- Silvio Oddi (17 May 1962 – 30 April 1969)
- Igino Eugenio Cardinale (19 April 1969[6] – 24 March 1983)
- Angelo Pedroni (6 July 1983[7] – 13 June 1989)
- Giovanni Moretti (15 July 1989 – 3 March 1999)
- Pier Luigi Celata (3 March 1999 – 14 November 2002)
- Karl-Josef Rauber (22 February 2003 – 18 June 2009)
- Giacinto Berloco (18 June 2009 – 23 September 2016)
- Augustine Kasujja (12 October 2016[8] – 31 August 2021)[9]
- Franco Coppola (15 November 2021[10] – present)
References
See also
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