Apostolic Nunciature to Honduras

Diplomatic post of the Holy See

The Apostolic Nunciature to Honduras is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Honduras. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. The nuncio resides in Tegucigalpa.

The Holy See used a delegate—a member of its diplomatic corps not granted official status by their host country—to represent its interests to church officials, civil society, and the government. The Holy See appointed its first Apostolic Nuncio in 1933. For fifty years the Nuncio held a second appointment as nuncio, usually to Nicaragua; since April 1986 the Nuncio to Honduras has held only that position.

List of papal representatives to Honduras

Apostolic Delegates and Internuncios

Giovanni Cagliero, S.D.B. (19 December 1908^[1] - 6 December 1915)^[2]
Giovanni Battista Marenco, S.D.B. (2 February 1917^[3] - 22 October 1921)^[4]
Angelo Rotta (16 October 1922^[5]^[a] – 9 May 1925)
Giuseppe Fietta (27 February 1926 - 23 September 1930)
Carlo Chiarlo (28 January 1932 - 30 September 1933)

Apostolic Nuncios

Albert Levame (21 December 1933^[7] - 31 October 1938)^[8]
Federico Lunardi (31 October 1938^[8] - December 1947)
Liberato Tosti (4 October 1948^[9] - 1949)^[b]
Antonio Taffi (9 January 1950^[10] - 1958)^[c]
Sante Portalupi (29 January 1959^[11] - 27 September 1967)
Lorenzo Antonetti (23 February 1968^[12] - 29 June 1973)
Gabriel Montalvo Higuera (14 June 1974 - 18 March 1980)
Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (25 October 1980 - 1 April 1986)^[13]
Francesco De Nittis (10 April 1986^[13] - 25 June 1990)
Manuel Monteiro de Castro (21 August 1990 - 12 April 1991)^[14]
Luigi Conti (12 April 1991^[14] - 15 May 1999)
George Panikulam (4 December 1999 - 3 July 2003)
Antonio Arcari (18 July 2003^[15] - 12 December 2008)^[16]
Luigi Bianco (12 January 2009^[17] - 12 July 2014)^[18]
Novatus Rugambwa (5 March 2015^[19] - 29 March 2019)^[20]
Gábor Pintér (12 November 2019 - present)

Notes

^ The Internunciature to Central America then covered Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.^[6]
^ Tosti resigned in 1949 at age 65 and died on 20 October 1950.
^ Taffi resigned as Nuncio to Honduras and Nicaragua in 1958 at age 60; these were his last positions as nuncio.

References

^ De Marchi, Giuseppe (1957). Le Nunziature Apostoliche dal 1800 al 1956 (in Italian). Libreria Editrice Vaticana. p. 145. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ "To Name Six Cardinals". New York Times. 4 November 1915. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. IX. 1917. p. 158. Retrieved 5 June 2020. Internuncio Apostolico di Costarica, Nicaragua e Honduras
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XIII. 1921. p. 520. Retrieved 5 June 2020. Internunzio Apostolico per Costa Rica, Nicaragua e Honduras
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XIV. 1922. pp. 551, 563. Retrieved 14 July 2020. Internunzio Apostolico nell'America Centrale
^ De Marchi, Giuseppe (1957). Le Nunziature Apostoliche dal 1800 al 1956 (in Italian). Libreria Editrice Vaticana. p. 104. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXVI. 1934. pp. 10, 203. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
^ ^a ^b Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXX. 1938. p. 385. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XLI. 1949. p. 299. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
^ "Transferred to Apostolic Delegation in Washington". Catholic News Archive. 13 March 1950. Retrieved 19 December 2019. Archbishop Antonio Taffi, Apostolic Nuncio recently transferred from Cuba, has left Havana and is expected to arrive soon to present his credentials in Nicaragua and Honduras
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LI. 1959. p. 116. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LX. 1968. p. 225. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
^ ^a ^b Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXVIII. 1986. p. 480. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
^ ^a ^b Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXIII. 1991. p. 447. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
^ "Rinunce e nomine, 18.07.2003" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 18 July 2003. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
^ "Rinunce e nomine, 12.12.2008" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 12 December 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 12.01.2009" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 12 January 2009. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 12.07.2014" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 12 July 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 05.03.2015" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 29.03.2019" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.