Apostolic Nunciature to Paraguay

The Apostolic Nunciature to Paraguay is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Paraguay. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador.

List of papal representatives

Apostolic Delegates

• Vincenzo Massoni (26 September 1856 – 3 June 1857)
• Marino Marini (14 August 1857 – 27 March 1865)
• Angelo Di Pietro (31 December 1877 – 30 September 1879)
• Luigi Matera (19 September 1879 – 14 October 1884)
• Antonio Sabatucci (24 October 1900 – 9 November 1906)

Apostolic Internuncios

• Alberto Vassallo di Torregrossa (5 January 1920 – 14 July 1922)
  • Title is Nuncio as of 6 August 1920

Apostolic Nuncios

• Beda Giovanni Cardinale (16 October 1922 – 29 August 1925)
• Filippo Cortesi (14 June 1928 – 4 June 1936)
• Giuseppe Fietta (11 December 1936 – 12 November 1939)
• Albert Levame (12 November 1939 – 17 December 1941)
• Liberato Tosti (5 September 1946 – 4 October 1948)
• Federico Lunardi (8 July 1949 – 9 November 1954)
• Luigi Punzolo (7 December 1954 – 12 December 1957)
• Carlo Martini (25 March 1958 – 29 November 1963)
• Vittore Ugo Righi (1 February 1964 – 1967)
• Antonio Innocenti (15 December 1967 – 26 February 1973)
• Joseph Mees (11 July 1973 – 19 January 1985)
• Giorgio Zur (3 May 1985 – 13 August 1990)
• José Sebastián Laboa Gallego (21 August 1990 – 18 March 1995)
• Lorenzo Baldisseri (6 April 1995 – 19 June 1999)
• Antonio Lucibello (27 July 1999 – 27 August 2005)
• Orlando Antonini (16 November 2005 – 8 August 2009)
• Eliseo Antonio Ariotti (5 November 2009 – present)

See also

• Foreign relations of the Holy See
• List of heads of the diplomatic missions of the Holy See