How to Use nuncio in a Sentence

nuncio

noun
  • In the letter, Francis said the plan fell apart because the nuncio revealed it.
    Fox News, 27 Apr. 2018
  • So have all the ambassadors in Kyiv except the one from Poland and the papal nuncio from the Vatican.
    Waldemar Januszczak For The Times, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The nuncio asked him to describe those elements in a letter.
    Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The nuncio also accused the left-wing billionaire George Soros of funding the Jesuits, a Catholic order of priests.
    Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Reached by phone, Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio, or Vatican ambassador, deferred to the statement.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Marino has been serving as apostolic nuncio to Malaysia and East Timor, and apostolic delegate to Brunei.
    Greg Garrison | Ggarrison@al.com, al, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The Vatican yearbook lists three counselors who work under the nuncio, or ambassador.
    Nicole Winfield and Matthew Lee, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • DeGeorge wrote to Christophe Pierre, whose title as ambassador is nuncio.
    Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Quirk wrote to diocese financial officials in a 2016 email regarding a gift that Bransfield sent to Vigano’s successor as nuncio, Christophe Pierre.
    The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
  • On Saturday, the Vatican announced that the Nicaraguan government had expelled the papal nuncio, Msgr.
    Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2022
  • An apostolic pro-nuncio is a representative of the Vatican.
    Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • In August 2015, Denton reported his rape to Apuron’s superior, the apostolic nuncio for the Pacific.
    Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The bishops’ conference is no longer organizing the talks with the government, although the papal nuncio, Archbishop Waldemar Sommertag, is participating.
    Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
  • Members of the public can file reports online through an independent vendor, EthicsPoint.com, which then sends the allegations to two members of a Baltimore diocesan independent review board, the nuncio, and, where appropriate, to civil authorities.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 12 June 2019
  • The award typically requires recommendations from bishops or Papal nuncios.
    Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 12 June 2018

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