India

History

• Established as Apostolic Delegation of East India
• 1948.06.12: Promoted as Apostolic Internunciature of India
• 1967.04.12: Promoted as Apostolic Nunciature of India
• 1985: Branched to create Apostolic Nunciature of Nepal

Present Papal Representative

• vacant

Past Papal Representatives

• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli (73) (2021.03.13 – 2026.03.13)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro (72) (2017.01.21 – 2020.08.29)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio (73) (2010.05.08 – 2016.08.06)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Pedro López Quintana (73) (2003.02.08 – 2009.12.10)
• Apostolic Nuncio:  Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri (85) (later Cardinal) (1999.06.19 – 2002.11.12)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Giorgio Zur (1990.08.13 – 1998.12.07)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan (later Cardinal) (1981.05.09 – 1990.06.13)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Luciano Storero (1976.07.14 – 1981.02.02)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop John Gordon (1971.08.11 – 1976.06.11)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Marie-Joseph Lemieux (マリー・ジョゼフ・ルミュー) (1969.05.30 – 1971.02.16)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Giuseppe Caprio (高理耀) (later Cardinal) (1967.08.22 – 1969.04.19)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop James Robert Knox (later Cardinal) (1957.02.14 – 1967.04.12)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Martin Lucas, S.V.D. (1952.12.03 – 1956)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. (1948.06.12 – 1952)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. (1931.03.23 – 1948.06.12)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Edward Aloysius Mooney (later Cardinal) (1926.01.21 – 1931.03.23)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Pietro Pisani (1919.12.15 – 1924)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Pietro Fumasoni Biondi (later Cardinal) (1916.11.15 – 1919.12.06)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Ladislao Michele Zaleski (later Patriarch) (1892.03.05 – 1916.11.15)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Andrea Aiuti (later Cardinal) (1887.03.31 – 1891.07.24)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Antonio Agliardi (later Cardinal) (1884.09.23 – 1887.05.09)

Last updated on 2026.09.04

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