Apostolic Nunciature to Germany

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Apostolic Nunciature to Germany
Nikola Eterovic

The Apostolic Nunciature to Germany is an ecclesiastical office of the

Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria, seated in Munich. With the unconditional surrender of Germany in 1945 the diplomatic ties were interrupted and reestablished for West Germany only in 1951, then in Bonn
. In 2001 the nunciature moved again to Berlin.

Three Popes once served as nuncios in what is today's Germany: Alexander VII, Leo XII and Pius XII. As of 2014 the Apostolic Nuncio to Germany is Nikola Eterović, appointed by Pope Francis on September 21, 2013.

List of Apostolic Nuncios to Germany

To the Holy Roman Empire

Lorenzo Campeggio, the first nuncio in the territory of modern-day Germany

The first nuncio in the territory of modern-day Germany was Lorenzo Campeggio in 1511, as the nuncio and cardinal protector to the Imperial Court.[3] His role was ratified in 1513 by Leo X, the new pope.[3] The nunciature became permanently accredited in 1530, whereafter the nuncios often followed Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor even when he left Imperial territory.[3]

In Cologne

Main article:
Apostolic Nuncio to Cologne

The Cologne nunciature was erected in 1584 for the northwest of the Holy Roman Empire and the Rhineland.[3] The Nuncios to Cologne were accredited to the Archbishop-Electorates of Cologne, Mainz and Trier. In 1596, the Low Countries (Netherlands) were detached from the nunciature of Cologne, receiving their own nuncio in Brussels.[3]

Reunified with the Apostolic Nunciature to Austria or to the Emperor

In Munich

Main article:
Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria

In Berlin

Nuncio to Prussia in personal union with the nunciature to Germany, and moved to Berlin the same year. Until the dissolution of the German federal states in May 1934, the respective Nuncio to Germany remained also Nuncio to Prussia by a separate title. The relations with Bavaria remained fully intact with Pacelli's successor Nuncio Abp Alberto Vassallo-Torregrossa
, whose ambassadorial rank fell also away in 1934 together with the existence of Bavaria as an entity of statehood; he was however able to more or less continue affairs until he left the country in 1936 at the insistence of the Nazi regime.

  • 1920–1930: Eugenio Pacelli (future Pope Pius XII), nuncio to Germany, in personal union nuncio to Bavaria (1917–1925) and nuncio to Prussia (1925–1930)
  • 1930–1945: Cesare Orsenigo, in personal union nuncio to Prussia (1930–1934), since 1944 in Prötzel, and January 1945 in Eichstätt, where he died in 1946
  • 1945–1951: vacancy, no nuncio to Allied-occupied Germany
    • 1946–1951:
      military vicar
      delegate of the United States armed forces, becoming nuncio in Bonn in 1951.

In Bonn for the Federal Republic of Germany only

With

German Democratic Republic
had no diplomatic ties with the Vatican.

In Berlin since 2001

  • Giovanni Lajolo (7 December 1995 – 7 October 2003)
    • moved to Berlin in 2001, as did the
      Federal Government
  • Erwin Josef Ender (25 November 2003 – 15 October 2007)
  • Jean-Claude Périsset (15 October 2007 – 21 September 2013)
  • Nikola Eterovic
    (21 September 2013 – present)

See also

Notes

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  2. [self-published]
  3. ^ a b c d e f Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Nuncio" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  4. ^ Article: "Nunzius" in: Der Große Brockhaus: Handbuch des Wissens in zwanzig Bänden: 21 vols. , Leipzig: Brockhaus, 151928–1935; vol. 13 (1932), pp. 539seq., here p. 540.

External links

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