Apostolic Nunciature to New Zealand

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

The Holy See represented its interests in the region through its Delegation to Australia established on 15 April 1914{{cite book | access-date = 1 December 2019 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-06-1914-ocr.pdf | date =1914 | volume = VI | pages= 223–4 }} and renamed the Delegation to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania on 8 June 1947.{{cite book | access-date = 1 December 2019 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-39-1947-ocr.pdf | date =1947 | volume = XXXIX | page= 501}} On 1 November 1968, that was divided into two delegations: the Delegation to Australia and Papua New Guinea and the Delegation to New Zealand and Pacific Islands.{{cite book | access-date = 30 November 2019 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-61-1969-ocr.pdf | date =1969 | volume = LXI | pages= 158–60 }} The Holy See established its Nunciature to New Zealand on 20 June 1973.{{cite book | access-date = 30 November 2019 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-65-1973-ocr.pdf | date =1973 | volume = LXV | page= 430}}

The Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand is usually also the Apostolic Nuncio to the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and Apostolic Delegate to the Pacific Ocean upon his appointment to said nations.

List of papal representatives

;Apostolic Delegates to Australia

;with responsibility for New Zealand

Bonaventura Cerretti (10 May 1914{{cite book | access-date = 30 November 2019 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis |url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-06-1914-ocr.pdf | date =1914 | volume = VI | pages= 380 }} – 6 May 1917){{cite book | access-date = 15 May 2020 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-09-I-1917-ocr.pdf | date =1917 | volume = IX | page= 301 }}
Bartolomeo Cattaneo (16 May 1917{{cite book | access-date = 15 May 2020 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-09-I-1917-ocr.pdf | date =1917 | volume = IX | pages= 300, 343 }} - January 1933)
Filippo Bernardini (13 March 1933 – 10 October 1935)
Giovanni Panico (17 October 1935 – 28 September 1948)

;Apostolic Delegates to Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania

Paolo Marella (27 October 1948{{cite book | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | date = 1949 | volume = XLI| url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-41-1949-ocr.pdf | page =299 | access-date = 2 July 2020}} – 15 April 1953)
Romolo Carboni (28 September 1953 – 2 September 1959)
Maximilien de Fürstenberg (21 November 1959 – 28 April 1962)
Domenico Enrici (1 October 1962 – 1 November 1968)

;Apostolic Delegate to New Zealand and Pacific Islands

Raymond Philip Etteldorf (21 December 1968 - 21 June 1974)

;Apostolic Pro-Nuncio

Angelo Acerbi (22 June 1974 - 14 August 1979)
Antonio Magnoni (24 April 1980{{cite book | access-date = 11 December 2019 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-72-1980-ocr.pdf | date = 1980| volume = LXXII | pages= 367, 373}} - 22 July 1989){{cite book | access-date = 11 December 2019 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-81-1989-ocr.pdf | date = 1989 | volume = LXXXI | page= 1079}}
Thomas Anthony White (14 October 1989{{cite book | access-date = 11 December 2019 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-81-1989-ocr.pdf | date = 1989| volume = LXXXI| page= 1273}} - 27 April 1996)

;Apostolic Nuncio

Patrick Coveney (27 April 1996{{cite book | access-date = 11 December 2019 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-88-1996-ocr.pdf | date =1996 | volume = LXXXVIII | pages= 527}} – 25 January 2005){{cite press release | accessdate = September 24, 2018 | publisher =Holy See Press Office |date=25 January 2005 |url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2005/01/25/0044/00119.html | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 25.01.2005 | language =it}}
Charles Daniel Balvo (1 April 2005{{cite press release | accessdate = September 24, 2018 | publisher =Holy See Press Office |date=April 1, 2005 |url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2005/04/01/0176/00375.html | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 01.04.2005 | language =it}} – 17 January 2013){{cite press release | accessdate = 24 July 2019 | publisher =Holy See Press Office | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2013/01/17/0028/00071.html | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 17.01.2013 |date= 17 January 2013| language =it}}
Martin Krebs (8 May 2013{{cite press release | publisher = Holy See Press Office | accessdate = 5 April 2019 |language=it| date= 8 May 2013 | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 08.05.2013 | url =http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2013/05/08/0286/00642.html }} – 16 June 2018){{cite press release | publisher = Holy See Press Office | accessdate = 5 April 2019 |date= 16 June 2018| title = Resignations and Appointments, 16.06.2018| url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/06/16/180616c.html }}
Novatus Rugambwa (29 March 2019{{cite press release | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2019/03/29/190329c.html | language = it | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 29.03.2019 |date= 29 March 2019 |access-date = 18 October 2019 | publisher = Holy See Press Office}} – 27 July 2024) [https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2024/07/27/240727a.html Resignations and Appointments, 27.07.2024]
Gábor Pintér (27 July 2024{{cite news |url=https://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2024/07/archbishop-gabor-pinter-appointed-popes-representative-to-aotearoa-new-zealand/ |title=Archbishop Gábor Pintér Appointed Pope's Representative To Aotearoa New Zealand |accessdate=July 28, 2024}} – present)

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