Definition of "nuncio" []

• A papal ambassador or representative. (noun)

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• "Due to tensions between the two, in April 2004, Ranjith — who was not a Vatican diplomat — was named the nuncio in Indonesia and East Timor."
• "Luther and the papal nuncio cited in and see Kenneth M. Setton, “Lutheranism and the Turkish Peril,” Balkan Studies 3, no."
• "“We are occupied,” wrote a papal nuncio in 1523, in preparing for “the general war against the Turk,” as well as for “war against the nefarious Martin Luther, who is a greater evil to Christendom than the Turk.”"