Giovanni Tonucci

Monsignor Giovanni Tonucci (born December 4, 1941 in Fano, PU, Italy) is a Latin Rite Italian archbishop of the Catholic Church. He was recently named the Territorial Prelate of Loreto. His previous post was as the Apostolic Nuncio (Papal ambassador) to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway.

From 1971 till the end of 1973 his diplomatic career brought him first to Yaoundé, Cameroon, then, from 1974 to 1976 he was in London, United Kingdom. From July 1976 he was back in Rome, assigned to the Section for General Affairs of the Holy See Secretariat of State where he worked with Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, until being transferred, in April 1978, to the Section for the Relations with States under the guide of Msgr. Achille Silvestrini. At the end of the 1984 he was assigned to the Apostolic Nunciature in Belgrade, at that time still the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, where he worked until the summer of 1987 before being transferred to the Nunicature to the United States in Washington, D.C., USA.

On October 21, 1989 Tonucci was appointed Titular Archbishop of Torcello and Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia. He was consecrated as a Bishop on January 6, 1990 by Pope John Paul II as principal consecrator, with principal co-consecrators Msgr. Giovanni Battista Re and Msgr. Miroslav Stefan Marusyn. He remained in Bolivia until March 9, 1996 when he was named the Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya and the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN Environment and Human Settlements Programs (UNEP/UN–HABITAT).

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