Meaning of nunciature | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The status or rank of a nuncio (diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church).
2. The building and staff of a nuncio; the equivalent of an embassy for the Holy See.
3. The term of service of a nuncio.

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Examples

“Does their role include⟳ the bringing of the message of Christ in the political life of the country to which they are ambassadors? A clarification of the role of nunciature is necessary to maintain⟳ this "appropriate communication."”

“This was the prelate chosen by the new Pope, Innocent X., for the nunciature in Ireland: a man of noble birth, in the fifty-third year of his age, of uncertain bodily health, of great learning, especially as a canonist, of a fiery Italian temperament[…”

“His ecclesiastical appointments showed how rapidly he had made his way, how supple was his mind⟳: first of all secretary to the nunciature at Lisbon; […].”

“During the first winter of the war, a junior officer in the nunciature to Italy was summoned to the foreign ministry by the chef de cabinet of Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano to review⟳ some matter⟳ of ecclesiastical property.”

“Seeing as the meeting happened at the nunciature in Washington, it could only have⟳ happened with the approval and participation of the nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.”

“At the same time he had certainly searched documents, studied encyclical letters, based his sketch⟳ upon facts: first Leo's religious education at Rome, then his brief nunciature at Brussels, and afterwards his long episcopate at Perugia.”

“The Warsaw nuncio was content to preach a spirit of peace, and was severely taken to task by the Polish press⟳ during the summer of 1920. This cast⟳ something of a shadow over the final period of his nunciature.”

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