nunciature
English
Etymology
From Latin nunciare, nuntiare (“to announce, report”), from nuncius, nuntius (“messenger”). Compare French nonciature, Italian nunziatura.
Noun
nunciature (plural nunciatures)
- The status or rank of a nuncio.
- 1980, Felix Casalmo, The Vision of a New Society
- Does their role include the bringing of the message of Christ in the political life of the country to which they are ambassadors? A clarification of the role of nunciature is necessary to maintain this "appropriate communication."
- 1980, Felix Casalmo, The Vision of a New Society
- The building and staff of a nuncio; the equivalent of an embassy for the Holy See.
- 2013, David Alvarez, Revd Robert A., SJ Graham, Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage Against the Vatican, 1939-1945, Routledge →ISBN, page 164
- During the first winter of the war, a junior officer in the nunciature to Italy was summoned to the foreign ministry by the chef de cabinet of Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano to review some matter of ecclesiastical property.
- 2013, David Alvarez, Revd Robert A., SJ Graham, Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage Against the Vatican, 1939-1945, Routledge →ISBN, page 164
- The term of service of a nuncio.
- 2002, Philippe Levillain, The Papacy: Gaius-Proxies, Psychology Press →ISBN, page 1201
- The Warsaw nuncio was content to preach a spirit of peace, and was severely taken to task by the Polish press during the summer of 1920. This cast something of a shadow over the final period of his nunciature.
- 2002, Philippe Levillain, The Papacy: Gaius-Proxies, Psychology Press →ISBN, page 1201
Translations
status or rank of a nuncio
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