Patrick Connell

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|name = Patrick Connell

|image = Patrick Connell, Chargé d’Affaires.jpg

|office = Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the United States Embassy to the Holy See

|president = Joe Biden

|term_start = January 20, 2021

|term_end = February 15, 2022

|predecessor = Callista Gingrich (Ambassador)

|successor = Joe Donnelly (Ambassador)

|birth_name = Patrick Connell

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|birth_place = Westford, Massachusetts, U.S.

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|spouse = Hyrije Kryeziu Connell

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Patrick Connell is an American diplomat who assumed the role of Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at the Embassy of the United States to the Holy See under the Biden administration on January 20, 2021, succeeding former ambassador Callista Gingrich.{{Cite web|date=February 9, 2021|title=Pope Francis offers a roadmap for overcoming the pandemic—and the 7 other crises it exposed|url=https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/02/09/pope-francis-vatican-diplomats-covid-19-239954|access-date=March 26, 2021|website=America Magazine|language=en}} Connell is currently a career member of the United States Foreign Service and previously served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the embassy from July 2020 until his promotion.