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In Europe in the middle ages, a messenger or ‘living letter’.
Since the sixteenth century, a resident representative of the Holy See with the same rank as an ambassador. Accredited to the civil authorities, the nuncio – unlike the apostolic delegate – has a political (‘external’) as well as religious (‘internal’) commission from the pope. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815 it was agreed that the papal nuncio would always be the dean of the diplomatic corps (and there is an echo of this in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations). However, a predictable dispute subsequently arose as to whether the Regulation agreed at Vienna meant that any nuncio, wherever he was accredited, would head the local order of diplomatic precedence, or whether he would only enjoy this in capitals where a nuncio was to be found in 1815. Today, it is only common to find the nuncio automatically made dean of the diplomatic corps in Roman Catholic countries. See also internuncio; nunciature; pronuncio; Regulation of Vienna; Vatican City State. |
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