The Apostolic Nunciature to Trinidad and Tobago is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Trinidad and Tobago. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. The Apostolic Nuncio to Trinidad and Tobago is usually also the Apostolic Nuncio to Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and the Apostolic Delegate to the Antilles upon his appointment to said nations. The nuncio resides in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
List of papal representatives to Trinidad and Tobago
edit- Apostolic Pro-Nuncios
- Paul Fouad Naïm Tabet (9 February 1980[1] - 8 September 1984)[2]
- Manuel Monteiro de Castro (16 February 1985[3] - 21 August 1990)[4]
- Apostolic Nuncios
- Eugenio Sbarbaro (7 February 1991[5] - 26 April 2000)[5]
- Emil Paul Tscherrig (8 July 2000[6] - 22 May 2004)[7]
- Thomas Edward Gullickson (2 October 2004[8] - 21 May 2011)[9]
- Nicola Girasoli (21 December 2011[10] - 16 June 2017)[11]
- Fortunatus Nwachukwu (4 November 2017[12] – 17 December 2021)[13]
- Santiago de Wit Guzmán (30 July 2022 [14] – present)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXII. 1980. pp. 254, 365. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXVI. 1984. p. 934. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXVII. 1985. pp. 346, 443. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXII. 1990. p. 1021. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ a b "Rinunce e Nomine, 26.04.2000" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 26 April 2000. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 08.07.2000" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 8 July 2000. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 22.05.2004" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 22 May 2004. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e nomine, 02.10.2004" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. October 2, 2004. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
- ^ "Archbishop Thomas Edward Gullickson Named Nuncio in Ukraine". Religious Information Service of Ukraine. 21 May 2011.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 21.12.2011" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 21 December 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 16.06.2017" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 16 June 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ "Resignations and Appointments, 04.11.2017" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 4 November 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- ^ "Resignations and Appointments, 17.12.2021" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Resignations and Appointments, 30.07.2022". Retrieved July 30, 2022.