{"id":26727,"date":"2011-11-07T16:43:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/carlo-maria-vigano-americas-nu\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T16:37:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T20:37:34","slug":"carlo-maria-vigano-americas-nu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/carlo-maria-vigano-americas-nu\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlo Maria Viganò, America’s New Nuncio, to arrive soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Carlo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2, 70, was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to be his personal representative to the Church in the United States and to the US government, on 19 October 2011. As ambassador he’ll have to recommend to the Pope the new bishops, handle ecclesial matters of significance and work with the US politicians. Archbishop\u00a0Vigan\u00f2 met with the Pope this morning. He is set arrive in time for the general meeting of US Bishops, 14-16 November in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

David Kerr of The National Catholic Register<\/i><\/b><\/a> has a story relating these diplomatic events and more of\u00a0Vigan\u00f2’s history.<\/p>\n

You may also want to read Cindy Wooden of the Catholic News Service’s October 19th article for a another perspective<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Archbishop\u00a0Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2 was born in Varese, Italy (Lombardy) and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Pavia (the place where St Augustine of Hippo is buried) but since 1973\u00a0Vigan\u00f2 has been in the service ot the Holy See. Since 1992, he’s been a bishop. His past postings have been as Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria, and since 1998 he’s been an official in the Secretariat of State. Recently, recently he’s been the Secretary to the Governate of Vatican City State.<\/p>\n

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2’s appointment to the office of Nuncio fills the gap left when Pietro Sambi died on 27 July 2011.\u00a0His Excellency is the 14th representative of the Pope on US shores.<\/p>\n

The United States of America has had a delegation from the Holy See since 24 January 1893; the delegation became a full-fledged Nunciature on 10 January 1984.<\/p>\n

May the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, pray for Archbishop\u00a0Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2, 70, was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to be his personal representative to the Church in the United States and to the US government, on 19 October 2011. As ambassador he’ll have to recommend to the Pope the new bishops, handle ecclesial matters of significance and work with the … Continue reading Carlo Maria Viganò, America’s New Nuncio, to arrive soon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[31922,32092,2485,32081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29762,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26727\/revisions\/29762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}