Faustino Sainz Muñoz
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Faustino Sainz Muñoz |
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| Archbishop, Nuncio to Great Britain | |
| In office | 11 December 2004 - 18 December 2010 |
| Predecessor | Pablo Puente Buces |
| Successor | Antonio Mennini |
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| Ordination | 19 December 1964 |
| Consecration | 18 December 1988 by Agostino Casaroli |
| Rank | Monsignor |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 5, 1937 Almadén, Spain |
| Died | October 31, 2012 (aged 75) Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Styles of Faustino Sainz Muñoz |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
| Posthumous style | not applicable |
Faustino Sainz Muñoz (5 June 1937 – 31 October 2012) was a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Nuncio to Great Britain from 2004 until December 2010, having been appointed by Pope John Paul II in 2004.
Born in Almadén, Ciudad Real Province, Faustino Sainz Muñoz was ordained to the priesthood on 19 December 1964. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1970, serving in the Pontifical Representations in Senegal and Scandinavia, and then in the Council of Public Affairs of the Church of the Vatican Secretariat of State. As a junior diplomat in Finland, he was dispatched as part of the Holy See's delegation to the preparatory talks of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in 1975; the delegation diligently ensured that religious freedom was included in the Helsinki Accords. Upon his returning to the Vatican that same year, Sainz was made the Holy See’s liaison with Poland, Hungary, and later the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
He traveled to Latin America in 1978, where he accompanied Antonio Cardinal Samoré in successfully averting war between Chile and Argentina over the Beagle conflict. Sainz, who accompanied Pope John Paul on his visit to his native Poland in June 1979, describes the crowd's applause during the Pope's homily at a Mass on Victory Square in Warsaw as “an image that [he] cannot forget...it was the beginning of the end of Communism in Poland”.
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