Apostolic Nunciature to Mauritania

The Apostolic Nunciature to Mauritania is the diplomatic mission of the Holy See to Mauritania. The Apostolic Nuncio to Mauritania is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Mauritania, with the rank of an ambassador. The nuncio serves both as the ambassador of the Holy See to the Republic of Mauritania and as the point-of-contact between the Catholic hierarchy in Mauritania and the pope.

Since its creation in 1973, the post of Nuncio to Mauritania has been held by the archbishop who is Nuncio to Senegal; the Nuncio to Mauritania resides in Dakar, Senegal.

In 1948, the Holy See established the Delegation to Dakar led by Marcel-François Lefebvre[1] to represent its interests in French colonial Africa. Following the decolonization of the region, the title of that position was changed to Apostolic Delegate to Western Africa on 23 September 1960 and given responsibility for Senegal, Upper Volta, Cote d'Ivoire, Dahomey (Benin), Guinea, Mauritania, Niger, Sudan, Togo, Ghana, Gambia, and Sierra Leone.[2] Over the next decade, as the Vatican established relationships with individual countries, country-specific offices were created, including the Delegations to Guinea, Togo, Mali, and Mauritania on 21 May 1973.[3]

List of papal representatives to Mauritania
Apostolic Delegate
Apostolic Nuncios
  • Michael Banach (13 May 2017[13] – present)
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References
  1. Acta Apostolicae Sedia (PDF). XL. 1948. p. 560. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  2. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LII. 1960. p. 1003. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  3. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LXV. 1973. pp. 626–8. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  4. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LXXVIII. 1986. p. 1000. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  5. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LXXVIII. 1986. p. 131.
  6. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LXXXI. 1989. p. 1273. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  7. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). LXXXIX. 1997. p. 733. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  8. "Rinunce e Nomine, 04.12.2001" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 4 December 2001. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  9. "Rinunce e Nomine, 06.12.2007" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 6 December 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  10. "Rinunce e Nomine, 19.06.2008" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 19 June 2008. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  11. "Rinunce e Nomine, 22.06.2015" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  12. "Rinunce e nomine, 19.03.2016" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  13. "Rinunce e Nomine, 13.05.2017" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 13 May 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
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