Apostolic Nuncio in the Netherlands

Apostolic nunciature in the Netherlands was preceded by apostolic nunciature in Flanders . The latter was established in 1593 , during the pontificate of Pope Clement VIII . The appointment of the apostolic nuncio was later discontinued in 1634 due to the diplomatic crisis that occurred when the apostolic nuncio was Fabio de Lagonissa, and his successor, Lelio Falconieri, was unable to take possession of the nuncio, and that since then, internations did not go there until 1725 years when Mary Elizabeth of Austria inherited Eugene of Savoy, as governor of the Austrian Netherlands .

In 1829, Pope Pius VIII established the Apostolic Internationale in the Netherlands.

The Apostolic Nunciature in the Netherlands was established on July 22, 1967 , the log of Quantum utilitatis by Pope Paul VI .

Apostolic Delegates in Flanders

• Giambattista Castaña - (1578 - 1579).

Apostolic Nunci in Flanders

• Ottavio Mirto Frangipani - (April 20, 1596 - June 12, 1606);
• Decaf Karafa - (June 12, 1606 - May 12, 1607);
• Guido Bentivoglio - (June 1, 1607 - October 24, 1615);
• Ascanio Gesualdo - (October 24, 1615 - June 27, 1617);
• Lucio Morra - (June 27, 1617 - January 26, 1619);
• Lucio Sanseverino - (June 1, 1619 - 1621);
• Giovanni Francesco di Guidi Bagno - (May 1, 1621 - 1627);
• Fabio de Lagonissa - (March 13, 1627 - January 28, 1634);
• Lelio Falconieri - (August 4, 1635 - 1637 - returned to Rome, because he is not recognized as an apostolic nuncio).

Apostolic Internations in Flanders

• Richard Pauli-Stravius ​​- (1634 - 1642);
• Antonio Biki - (May 1642 - 1652);
• Andrea Mangelli - (1652 - 1655);
• Girolamo Di Vecchia - (1656 - 1665);

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• Philip Orazio Spada - (1696 - 1698 - internations);
• Giovanni Battista Bussi - (1698 - 1705 - internations);

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• Vincenzo Santini - (1713 - 1721) - Internations
• Giuseppe Spinelli - (1721 - 1731, and then internations and nuncios from 1725);
  • Vincenzo Montalto - (June 16, 1731 - mid-February 1732 - administrator of the nunciature);
• Silvio Valenti Gonzaga - (February 29, 1732 - January 28, 1736 - appointed apostolic nuncio in Spain );

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• Ignazio Busca - (September 17, 1775 - March 1, 1785 - appointed Governor of Rome);
• Antonio Felice Dzondadari - (January 3, 1786 - 1787 - expelled by order of Joseph II );
• Cesare Brancadoro - (August 28, 1792 - 1797).

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Apostolic Internations

• Francesco Capaccini - (May 1829 - 1831 - appointed Deputy Secretary of State );
• Antonio Benedetto Antonucci - (December 17, 1831 - December 17, 1840 - appointed bishop of Montefeltro);
• Innocenzo Ferriieri - (1841 - November 15, 1848 - appointed apostolic nuncio in Belgium );
• Carlo Belgrado - (February 12, 1848 - September 28, 1855 - appointed Bishop of Ascoli Piceno);
• Settimio Maria Vecchiotti - (November 23, 1855 - March 16, 1863);
• Luigi Aurella di Santo Stefano - (March 16, 1863 - April 25, 1866 - appointed apostolic nuncio in Belgium);
• Giacomo Cattani - May 2, 1866 - March 13, 1868 - appointed apostolic nuncio in Belgium);
• Angelo Bianchi - (March 14, 1868 - April 1874 - appointed apostolic nuncio in Bavaria );
• Giovanni Capri - (August 11, 1874 - September 19, 1879 - appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Education);
• Agapito Panichi - (September 19, 1879 - 1881 - appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Education);
• Francesco Spolverini - (April 25, 1882 - July 20, 1887 - appointed apostolic internation in Brazil );
• Aristide Rinaldini - (August 11, 1887 - May 30, 1893 - appointed deputy secretary of state);
• Benedetto Lorenzelli - (May 30, 1893 - October 1, 1896 - appointed apostolic nuncio in Bavaria);
• Francesco Tarnassi - (October 24, 1896 - May 24, 1902);
• Giovanni Tacci Porcelli - (April 29, 1911 - December 8, 1916);
• Achille Locatelli - (July 30, 1916 - July 13, 1918 - appointed apostolic nuncio in Portugal );
• Sebastiano Nicotra - (1918 - 1921);
• Roberto Vicentini - (May 19, 1921 - May 2, 1922 - appointed apostolic delegate of Colombia );
• Cesare Orsenigo - (June 23, 1922 - June 2, 1925 - appointed apostolic nuncio in Hungary );
• Lorenzo Schioppo - (May 3, 1925 - April 23, 1935);
• Paolo Jobbe - (August 12, 1935 - December 15, 1958);
• Giuseppe Beltrami - (January 31, 1959 - June 26, 1967).

Apostolic Nuncios in the Netherlands

• Angelo Felici - (July 22, 1967 - May 13, 1976 - appointed apostolic nuncio in Portugal);
• John Gordon - (June 11, 1976 - 1978);
• Bruno Wustenberg - (January 17, 1979 - May 31, 1984);
• Eduard Idris Cassidy - (November 6, 1984 - March 23, 1988 - appointed Secretary of State);
• Audris Juozas Bachkis - (August 5, 1988 - December 24, 1991 - appointed Archbishop of Vilnius );
• Henri Lemetre - (March 28, 1992 - February 8, 1997, retired);
• Angelo Acherby - (February 8, 1997 - February 27, 2001, retired);
• Francois Robert Bacquet - (February 27, 2001 - December 15, 2011, retired);
• Andre Dupuis - (December 15, 2011 - March 21, 2015, retired);
• Aldo Cavalli - (March 21, 2015 - present).

• Catholicism in the Netherlands .

• Apostolic Nunciature in the Netherlands at gcatholic.org ;
• Catholic-hierarchy.org ;
• Breve Quantum utilitatis , AAS 59 (1967), p. 953.

• Henry Biaudet, Les nonciatures apostoliques permanentes jusqu'en 1648 , Helsinki 1910;
• Giuseppe de Marchi, Le nunziature apostoliche dal 1800 al 1956 , Roma 1957, pp. 61 e seguenti.