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June 7, 2021

Pope Francis names new nuncio to Canada

Pope Francis is pictured with Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic during a meeting at the Vatican in this Jan. 17, 2020, file photo. The pope has named Archbishop Jurkovic, 68, as the nuncio to Canada. He had been the Holy See's representative to U.N. agencies in Geneva.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis named Slovenia Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic to be the new nuncio to Canada.

Published in Canada
December 10, 2020

Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi ends mission as Canada’s apostolic nuncio

Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi

After seven years as the Pope’s diplomatic representative in Canada, Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi is off to Albania.

Published in Canada
March 19, 2018

Pope ordains three new nuncios, including Canadian

New Archbishop Jose Bettencourt, a priest of the Archdiocese of Ottawa and former head of diplomatic protocol for the Vatican, greets the faithful during his episcopal ordination by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 19. Archbishop Bettencourt was among three new nuncios ordained as archbishops by the pope.
VATICAN – Celebrating the feast of St. Joseph, Pope Francis ordained three new bishops who will serve as papal nuncios, or ambassadors.
Published in International
February 26, 2018

Pope names Ottawa priest Apostolic Nuncio

Archbishop-designate Bettencourt served as assistant personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI and continued as Pope Francis' secretary when the new Pope was elected in March 2013. He was honoured in his hometown, Velas, Portugal in 2015.

OTTAWA – Msgr. Jose Bettencourt, an Ottawa priest who has served as Head of Protocol in the Vatican since 2012, has been named an Apostolic Nuncio and appointed as nuncio to Armenia.

Published in Canada
September 26, 2017

Nuncio challenges bishops to build on ad limina visits to Rome

The Apostolic Nuncio to Canada, Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi, reminded the Canadian bishops of the graces they received on their ad limina visits to Rome last spring. He spoke to the bishops' annual plenary Sept. 25.

CORNWALL, ONT. – The Vatican’s representative in Canada has urged Canada’s bishops to build on the “moment of grace” and “fresh wind” of their ad limina visits to Rome earlier this year.

Published in Canada
June 27, 2017

More needs to be done on reconciliation, says Pope's representative in Canada

Canada's Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi says that much more needs to be done when it comes to reconciliation with Canada's Indigenous peoples.

OTTAWA – Much more needs to be done when it comes to reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples, said Canada’s Apostolic Nuncio.

Published in Canada
November 15, 2016

'Beloved' Syria's new cardinal a sign of the Pope's closeness

Pope Francis' decision to make Archbishop Mario Zenari, his apostolic nuncio to Syria, a cardinal, is a sign of his closeness to the situation in the war-torn Middle Eastern `country.

VATICAN CITY – Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said that Francis’ decision to give a red hat to the longtime papal envoy to Syria is a sign of the Pope’s closeness to the Church and people on the ground amid the country's dire situation.

Published in International
December 2, 2014

Nuncio exhorts Canadian religious to build vocations culture

Archbishop Bonazzi (left)

OTTAWA - As Pope Francis inaugurated the Year of Consecrated Life Nov. 30, Canada’s Apostolic Nuncio exhorted Canadian religious to build a culture of vocations.

Published in Canada