Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro New papal envoy for India
New papal envoy for India CAMIL PARKHE | Sunday, 22 January 2017 AT 03:49 PM IST goo.gl/sEG2PG appointment , Papal envoy , India , christianity , archbishop Giambattista Diquattro , Apostolic Nuncio Pune: Pope Francis has appointed Italian archbishop Giambattista Diquattro as the Apostolic Nuncio, Vatican's new envoy to India and Nepal. The formal announcement was made made in Vatican on Saturday evening. The news was conveyed to the Catholic church hierarchy in India by Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas (SFX), secretary general of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India. The 62-year-old archbishop Diquattro will replace Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio who was transferred to Poland as Apostolic Nuncio in August last year. Archbishop Diquattro was earlier the Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia. He had joined the Holy See's diplomatic service in 1985 and later served at missions in the pontifical r...