(n.) A representative, or charge d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio.
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Nuncio
Definition:
(n.) A messenger.
(n.) The permanent official representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios.
Example Sentences:
(1) In comments to the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal, Parolin – who is the outgoing nuncio, or papal ambassador, to the Latin American country – said that as celibacy was a "church tradition" as opposed to dogma, it could be legitimately discussed.
(2) The four submitted statements containing their claims to the nuncio's office the week before Pope Benedict's resignation on 11 February.
(3) True to its tradition of silence on the subject, the Roman Catholic church's spokesman said that the nuncio had no comment.
(4) News of the apostolic visitation came via the papal nuncio, Antonio Mennini, in a meeting with one of the complainants, a former priest known as "Lenny" who accused the cardinal of making sexual advances to him when he was a seminarian.
(5) They have given sworn, signed statements to the papal nuncio.
(6) The Guardian asked the Vatican's representative in London, the papal nuncio, archbishop Antonio Mennini, why the papacy continued with such secrecy over the identity of its property investments in London.
(7) Through this representative, the nuncio replied, in emails seen by the Observer , that he appreciated their courage.
(8) The four priests asked a senior figure in the diocese to act as their representative to the nuncio's office.
(9) The four, from the diocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, have complained to nuncio Antonio Mennini, the Vatican's ambassador to Britain, and demanded O'Brien's immediate resignation.
(10) However, Lenny was dismayed by the nuncio's insistence that the visitator should be the new archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
(11) The allegations against O'Brien were sent to the pope's emissary to the UK, the papal nuncio, Antonio Mennini, in the week before Benedict announced his resignation.
(12) It said he arrived with his lover and, while running the post between nuncios, provided him with both accommodation and a job.
(13) Pope Francis this year, by approving the removal from ministry of an archbishop accused of abuse who was a papal nuncio and placing him under house arrest and subject to trial in Vatican State, is making a clear statement of intent to all victims.
(14) The cardinal maintained contact with Priest C over a period of time, and the statement to the nuncio's office alleges that he engineered at least one other intimate situation.
(15) He was ordained, but he told the nuncio in his statement that he resigned when O'Brien was promoted to bishop.
(16) The first response the complainants received from the nuncio said O'Brien should continue to go to Rome because "that will make it easier to arrange his retirement to be one of prayer and seclusion like the pope".
(17) •Had any senior figures in the Scottish Catholic church been aware of allegations about Cardinal Keith O'Brien's behaviour and private life before the papal nuncio to the UK, Archbishop Antonio Mennini, was given sworn statements by four men, three serving priests and a former priest, in early February?
(18) The four complainants made their statements to the papal nuncio, Archbishop Mennini, around 8 or 9 February.