Iraq

History

• Established as Apostolic Delegation of Mesopotamia, Kurdistan and Lesser Armenia (English)
• 1937: Renamed as Apostolic Delegation of Iraq
• 1966.10.14: Promoted as Apostolic Nunciature of Iraq

Present Papal Representative

• vacant

Past Papal Representatives

• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Mitja Leskovar (55) (2020.05.01 – 2024.04.16)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Alberto Ortega Martín (62) (2015.08.01 – 2019.10.07)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Giorgio Lingua (64) (2010.09.04 – 2015.03.17)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt (71) (2006.04.29 – 2010.07.17)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Fernando Filoni (斐洛尼) (78) (later Cardinal) (2001.01.17 – 2006.02.25)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto (82) (1994.07.23 – 2000.11.11)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Marian Oles (1987.11.28 – 1994.04.09)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Luigi Conti (1983.11.19 – 1987.01.17)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Antonio del Giudice (1978.12.22 – 1982.08.20)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Jean-Édouard-Lucien Rupp (1971.05.08 – 1978)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Paolo Mosconi (1970.04.11 – 1971.05)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Paul-Marie-Maurice Perrin (1966.10.14 – 1970.01.06)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Paul-Marie-Maurice Perrin (1965.07.31 – 1966.10.14)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Armand-Etienne M. Blanquet du Chayla, O.C.D. (1948.11.20 – 1964.09.17)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Georges-Marie-Joseph-Hubert-Ghislain de Jonghe d’Ardoye (雍守正), M.E.P. (1938.10.16 – 1947.07.06)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Antonin-Fernand Drapier, O.P. (1929.11.23 – 1936.11.19)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop François de Berré, O.P. (1922.09.19 – 1929.05.04)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Désiré-Jean Drure, O.C.D. (1904.03.05 – 1917.05.27)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Henri-Victor Altamayer, O.P. (1884.03.27 – 1902.08.28?)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Eugène-Louis-Marie Lion, O.P. (1874.03.13 – 1883.08.08)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Henri-Marie Amanton, O.P. (1857.03.10 – 1865.03.27)

Last updated on 2025.01.12

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