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Papal nuncio   /pˈeɪpəl nˈənsioʊ/   Listen
Papal nuncio

noun
1.
(Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status.  Synonym: nuncio.






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... Rome. “Never,” it has been said, “did any book receive a more stormy welcome. Within a few weeks of its appearance the University, the Jesuits, the executors of Jansen, the printer of the ‘Augustinus,’ the Spanish governor of the Low Countries, and the Papal Nuncio were engaged in a warfare of pamphlets, treatises, pasquinades, pleadings, synods, audiences, which it would be impossible to set forth in historical sequence.” {108} In the midst of all this, ...
— Pascal • John Tulloch



Words linked to "Papal nuncio" :   diplomat, diplomatist, Roman Catholic Church, nuncio, Roman Church, Roman Catholic, Western Church, Church of Rome



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