{"id":429786,"date":"2025-09-16T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429786\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:00:20","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-appoints-new-apostolic-nuncio-to-spain-and-andorra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429786\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV appoints new Apostolic Nuncio to Spain and Andorra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Piero Pioppo is appointed the new Apostolic Nuncio to Spain and the Principality of Andorra.<\/p>\n<p><b>By Vatican News<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Piero Pioppo as Apostolic Nuncio to Spain and the Principality of Andorra, a sovereign nation on the Iberian peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The former Apostolic Nuncio to Indonesia &amp; ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is the Titular Archbishop of Torcello, and has extensive experience as Apostolic Nuncio, having served also in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>Biography <\/p>\n<p>Born in Savona, northern Italy, in 1960, Archbishop Pioppo, who has a Doctorate Degree in Dogmatic Theology, was ordained and incardinated to the diocese of Acqui Terme, Italy, in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>He was assumed in the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1993 and has served in the following countries: Korea, Chile, and the Secretariat of State of the Holy See.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed Prelate of the Institute for the Works of Religion in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed Titular Archbishop of Torcello and Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroon and to Equatorial Guinea on 25 January 2010 and received Episcopal\u00a0Ordination in March that same year.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Pioppo as Apostolic Nuncio to Indonesia in September 2017 and Apostolic Nuncio to ASEAN the following year.<\/p>\n<p>He speaks Italian, English, French, and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Archbishop Piero Pioppo is appointed the new Apostolic Nuncio to Spain and the Principality of Andorra. By Vatican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[146413,31163,2000,299,41442,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-429786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-apostolic-nuncio","9":"tag-appointments","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","13":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115216228346059964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}