But there already had been an interruption in normal ties because the last papal ambassador left Warsaw on Sept. 5, 1939, after the start of World War II.

His appointment marked the first time a papal ambassador had been sent to a country in the United Kingdom since the Protestant Reformation.

(The other two presented to the papal ambassador have never been found.)

After all, the emperor was the final arbiter in all matters relating to Confucian thought and the papal ambassador spoke not a word of Mandarin.

The pope made him papal ambassador to the Republic of Genoa.

The papal ambassadors arrived at Krujë sending the news that a new bishop, Peter Perlati, had been appointed.

What we know about Innocent is that he was a papal ambassador to Spain, then a cardinal before he was elected Pope, at the age of 70.

Demetrius never visited Rome as a cardinal and became papal ambassador in Hungary.

The government responded by expelling the papal ambassador, who was present at the ceremony.

Balducci graduated in 1954 from Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, the Vatican training institute for priests who will be future papal ambassadors, or nuncios.