Apostolic Nunciature to Guinea-Bissau

Diplomatic post of the Holy See

The Apostolic Nunciature to Guinea-Bissau is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Guinea-Bissau. 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 Senegal.

List of papal representatives to Guinea-Bissau

Apostolic Delegates

Luigi Barbarito (5 April 1975 - 10 June 1978)
Luigi Dossena (24 October 1978^[1] - 30 December 1985)^[2]
Pablo Puente Buces (15 March 1986 - 31 July 1989)

Apostolic Pro-Nuncio

Antonio Maria Vegliò (21 October 1989^[3] - 2 October 1997)^[4]

Apostolic Nuncios

Jean-Paul Gobel (6 December 1997^[5] - 31 October 2001)^[6]
Giuseppe Pinto (5 March 2002^[7] - 6 December 2007)^[8]
Luis Mariano Montemayor (17 September 2008^[9] – 22 June 2015)^[10]
Michael Banach (22 August 2016^[11] – 3 May 2022)^[12]
Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag (6 September 2022^[13] – present)

References

^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXVIII. 1986. p. 1000. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXVIII. 1986. p. 131.
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXI. 1989. p. 1273. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXIX. 1997. p. 733. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXIX. 1997. p. 66. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 31.10.2001" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 31 October 2001. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 05.03.2002" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 5 March 2002. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 06.12.2007" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 6 December 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 17.09.2008" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 17 September 2008. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 22.06.2015" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
^ "Rinunce e nomine, 22.08.2016" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. August 22, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
^ "Resignations and Appointments, 03.05.2022" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. May 3, 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
^ "Resignations and Appointments, 06.09.2022" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.