The Apostolic Nunciature to Nicaragua is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic ChurchinNicaragua. 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 Managua.
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 until it appointed its first Apostolic Nuncio to Nicaragua in 1933. For fifty years the Nuncio held a second appointment as nuncio, usually to Honduras; since April 1986 the Nuncio to Nicaragua has held only that position.
In 2021, as relations between the Church and the government of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega deteriorated, the government abolished the title "dean of the diplomatic corps", traditionally held by the representative of the Holy See. In March 2022, it withdrew its acceptance of the apostolic nuncio, Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag, ending his term as nuncio and forcing him to leave the country. The nunciature remains open.[1]
Internuncio Apostolico di Costarica, Nicaragua e Honduras
Internunzio Apostolico per Costa Rica, Nicaragua e Honduras
Internunzio Apostolico nell'America Centrale
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
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