Apostolic Nunciature

Colombia

Country: Colombia

Type: Apostolic Nunciature

Address: Carrera 15, N. 36-33, Apartado aéreo 3740, Bogotá, Colombia

Phone: +57-1 3200-289

Website:

History

Established as Apostolic Delegation of Colombia
1916.05.08: Promoted as Apostolic Internunciature of Colombia
1917.07.20: Promoted as Apostolic Nunciature of Colombia

Present Papal Representative

Archbishop Paolo Rudelli (54)
(2023.07.19 – ...)

Titular Archbishop of Mesembria
Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia

Adveniat regnum tuum

Born:	1970.07.16 (Gazzaniga, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1995.06.10
Consecrated Bishop:	2019.10.04

Priest of Bergamo (Italy) (1995.06.10 – 2019.09.03)

Chaplain of His Holiness (2005.07.16 – 2014.10.01)

Permanent Observer to Council of Europe (2014.09.20 – 2019.09.03)

Observer to International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS) (2014.09.20 – 2019.09.03)

Prelate of Honour of His Holiness (2014.10.01 – 2019.09.03)

Titular Archbishop of Mesembria (2019.09.03 – ...)

Apostolic Nuncio to Zimbabwe (2020.01.25 – 2023.07.19)

Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia (2023.07.19 – ...)

Past Papal Representatives

Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor (69) (2018.09.27 – 2023.02.25)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Ettore Balestrero (58) (2013.02.22 – 2018.07.06)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Aldo Cavalli (78) (2007.10.29 – 2013.02.16)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Beniamino Stella (83) (later Cardinal) (1999.02.11 – 2007.10.13)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Paolo Romeo (87) (later Cardinal) (1990.04.24 – 1999.02.05)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Angelo Acerbi (99) (later Cardinal) (1979.08.14 – 1990.03.28)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo (later Cardinal) (1975.11.12 – 1979.05.05)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Angelo Palmas (1969.04.19 – 1975.09.02)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Giuseppe Paupini (later Cardinal) (1959.05.23 – 1969)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Paolo Bertoli (later Cardinal) (1953.05.07 – 1959.04.15)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Antonio Samorè (later Cardinal) (1950.01.30 – 1953.02.07)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Giuseppe Beltrami (later Cardinal) (1945.11.15 – 1948)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Carlo Serena (1935.07.05 – 1945.10.22)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Paolo Giobbe (later Cardinal) (1925.03.30 – 1935.07.05)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Roberto Vicentini (later Patriarch) (1922.05.18 – 1924.10.28)
Apostolic Nuncio: Archbishop Enrico Gasparri (later Cardinal) (1917.07.20 – 1920.09.01)
Apostolic Internuncio: Archbishop Enrico Gasparri (later Cardinal) (1916.05.08 – 1917.07.20)
Apostolic Delegate: Archbishop Enrico Gasparri (later Cardinal) (1915.12.09 – 1916.05.08)
Apostolic Delegate: Archbishop Alberto Vassallo-Torregrossa (1913.11.25 – 1915)
Apostolic Delegate: Archbishop Carlo Montagnini (1913.03.31 – 1913.10.24)
Apostolic Delegate: Archbishop Francesco Ragonesi (later Cardinal) (1904.09.14 – 1913.02.09)
Apostolic Delegate: Archbishop Antonio Vico (later Cardinal) (1897.11.24 – 1904.02.04)
Apostolic Delegate: Archbishop Mario Mocenni (later Cardinal) (1877.08.14 – 1882.03.28)
Apostolic Delegate: Archbishop Serafino Vannutelli (later Cardinal) (1869.07.18 – 1875.09.10)
Apostolic Delegate: Msgr. Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski (later Cardinal) (1856.06.17 – 1861.07.25)
Apostolic Delegate: Msgr. Lorenzo Barili (later Cardinal) (1851.05.26 – 1856.06.17)

Last updated on 2025.04.25