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Ukraine has passed messages and lists of names to the papal nuncio in Kyiv, Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, who forwards them via the Holy See to the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, according to a Ukrainian official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
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Isobel Koshiw, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
Ortega kicked out the papal nuncio, the Vatican's top diplomat in March.
—Megan Janetsky, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023
In 2016, Pope Francis appointed Russell as apostolic nuncio to Turkey and Turkmenistan, and gave him that same year the title of archbishop.
—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2022
Among those who denounced him were respected conservative politicians and the papal nuncio in Munich, Eugenio Pacelli, who would later become Pope Pius XII.
—Michael Brenner, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2022
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Isobel Koshiw, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
Ortega kicked out the papal nuncio, the Vatican's top diplomat in March.
—Megan Janetsky, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023
In 2016, Pope Francis appointed Russell as apostolic nuncio to Turkey and Turkmenistan, and gave him that same year the title of archbishop.
—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2022
Among those who denounced him were respected conservative politicians and the papal nuncio in Munich, Eugenio Pacelli, who would later become Pope Pius XII.
—Michael Brenner, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2022
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Will be rendered speechless by a missing button on the blouse of the wife of the Swiss consul, and the way the wind brushed back Agafya’s hair to show her collarbone.—
Daniel Mason,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Dec. 2024
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In his role as consul, Marcus uncovered the conspiracy and persuaded the senate to declare war on Catiline, who was subsequently killed in battle.—
Quintus Tullius Cicero,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Apr. 2012
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the talks followed an understanding reached during President Donald Trump's call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and contact between senior Russian and U.S. diplomats and other officials in Saudi Arabia.—
JILL LAWLESS AND AAMER MADHANI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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The Istanbul negotiations followed earlier discussions between senior diplomats from both nations in Saudi Arabia, as well as a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Putin.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Andrei Vyshinsky, procurator general in the 1930s, had overseen Stalin’s horrendous purges of millions of ordinary citizens – plus most of the members of the Communist Party Central Committee and top Soviet generals.—
Peter Bridges,
The Christian Science Monitor,
10 Jan. 2022
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The procurator of Roman Britain, Catus Decianus, ordered an extra two hundred men to Camulodunum and figured the problem was solved.—
Anne Thériault,
Longreads,
14 May 2021
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Srinivas Phatak, Unilever’s current deputy CFO and group controller, will take over as interim CFO.—
Karen Gilchrist,
CNBC,
25 Feb. 2025
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Before the announcement, Patel shared with allies that Robert Kissane, the acting FBI deputy director, was expected to remain in the position, CNN reported.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
24 Feb. 2025
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The tension arose from the fact that Mike—and by proxy, Harvey—might at any moment get caught in this masquerade.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
23 Feb. 2025
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The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as a proxy for Mars by researchers.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
20 Feb. 2025
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In the 1520s Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal legate of England, drove forward a similar program of moral and financial reform, winding up a further 29 monasteries.—
Crawford Gribben,
WSJ,
29 Apr. 2022
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The Franciscan Plano Carpini, who traveled the empire as papal legate in 1246, described a draconian tax collector demanding one in three boys from every Russian family, as well as unmarried women.—
Colin Thubron,
The New York Review of Books,
6 July 2021
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“Nuncio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuncio. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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