Netherlands

History

• Established as Apostolic Internunciature of Netherlands
• 1967.07.22: Promoted as Apostolic Nunciature of Netherlands

Present Papal Representative

• vacant

Past Papal Representatives

• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Jean-Marie Speich (70) (2025.04.12 – 2026.02.21)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Paul Tschang In-nam (장인남 바오로 / 張仁南) (76) (2022.07.16 – 2025.02.13)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Aldo Cavalli (79) (2015.03.21 – 2021.11.27)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop André Dupuy (86) (2011.12.15 – 2015.03.21)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop François Robert Bacqué (2001.02.27 – 2011.12.15)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Angelo Acerbi (100) (later Cardinal) (1997.02.08 – 2001.02.27)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Henri Lemaître (1992.03.28 – 1997.02.08)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Audrys Juozas Bačkis (89) (later Cardinal) (1988.08.05 – 1991.12.24)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Edward Idris Cassidy (葛錫迪) (later Cardinal) (1984.11.06 – 1988.03.23)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Bruno Wüstenberg (1979.01.17 – 1984.05.31)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop John Gordon (1976 – 1978)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Angelo Felici (later Cardinal) (1967.07.22 – 1976.05.13)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Giuseppe Beltrami (later Cardinal) (1959.01.31 – 1967.06.26)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Paolo Giobbe (later Cardinal) (1935.08.12 – 1958.12.15)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Lorenzo Schioppa (1925.05.03 – 1935.04.23)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo (1922.06.24 – 1925.05.03)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Roberto Vicentini (later Patriarch) (1921.05.19 – 1922.05.18)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Sebastiano Nicotra (1918.11.30 – 1921.05.19)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Achille Locatelli (later Cardinal) (1916.07.30 – 1918.07.13)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Giovanni Tacci Porcelli (later Cardinal) (1911.04.29 – 1916.07.30)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Msgr. Benedetto Lorenzelli (later Cardinal) (1893.05.30 – 1896.10.10)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Msgr. Aristide Rinaldini (later Cardinal) (1887.08.11 – 1893.05.31)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Msgr. Francesco Capaccini (later Cardinal) (1829.05 – 1831)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Silvio Valenti Gonzaga (later Cardinal) (1732.02.29 – 1736.01.28)

Last updated on 2026.04.19

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