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Pope John as Nuncio...
...Your Nov. 22 issue says that the late Pope John XXIII was Archbishop of Paris. Angelo Roncalli, before his election to the papacy as John XXITI, served as apostolic nuncio to France with the title of archbishop. But he was never Archbishop of Paris...
...priests and deanery councils. The liberals did not deny the claim, but attributed Simonis' second-place rankings to liberal vote splitting rather than real support for Simonis. The diocesan chapter rated Simonis eighth, thus putting him off their list of nominations to Rome. Archbishop Angelo Felici, papal pro-nuncio to The Netherlands, charged that the chapter list was "manipulated...
Died. Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella, 91, oldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals, who served as a papal nuncio in Chile and Brazil for 27 years, then acted briefly as chief executive of the Vatican interim administration after the deaths of Pope Pius XII in 1958 and Pope John XXIII in 1963; of kidney disease; in Rome...
...represent the Pope at the Eastern Roman imperial court. Modern diplomacy came with the Renaissance and Reformation. In 1815, Rome's envoys achieved considerable sway in Europe when the Vatican delegate to the Congress of Vienna, Cardinal Consalvi, won a remarkable concession from the Congress: henceforth a papal nuncio (ambassador) would be the doyen of the resident diplomatic corps wherever he was accredited...