History

• 1922: Established as Apostolic Delegation of China
• 1946: Promoted as Apostolic Internunciature of China
• 1966.12.24: Promoted as Apostolic Nunciature of China
• 1973.02.02: Branched to create Apostolic Nunciature of Bangladesh

Present Papal Representative

Past Papal Representatives

• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Edward Idris Cassidy (葛錫迪) (94) (later Cardinal) (1970.10.27 – 1979.03.25)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Luigi Accogli (艾可儀) (1967.10.16 – 1970.09.29)
• Apostolic Pro-Nuncio:  Archbishop Giuseppe Caprio (高理耀) (later Cardinal) (1966.12.24 – 1967.08.22)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Giuseppe Caprio (高理耀) (later Cardinal) (1959.05.20 – 1966.12.24)
• Apostolic Internuncio:  Archbishop Antonio Riberi (黎培理) (later Cardinal) (1946.07.06 – 1959.02.19)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Mario Zanin (蔡寧) (1934.01.07 – 1946)
• Apostolic Delegate:  Archbishop Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini (剛恆毅) (later Cardinal) (1922.08.12 – 1933.11.03)
• Chargé d’affaires:  Msgr. Paul Fitzpatrick Russell (陸思道) (59) (later Archbishop) (2008 – 2016.03.19)
• Chargé d’affaires:  Msgr. Ambrose Madtha (安博思) (later Archbishop) (2003.02.11 – 2008.05.08)
• Chargé d’affaires:  Msgr. James Patrick Green (格霖澤) (68) (later Archbishop) (2002.01.18 – 2003)
• Chargé d’affaires:  Msgr. Adolfo Tito Yllana (易福霖) (70) (later Archbishop) (1999.09.20 – 2001.12.13)
• Chargé d’affaires:  Msgr. Joseph Chennoth (車納德) (75) (later Archbishop) (1995.04.26 – 1999.08.24)
• Chargé d’affaires:  Msgr. Juliusz Janusz (尤雅士) (74) (later Archbishop) (1992.08.25 – 1995.03.25)
• Chargé d’affaires:  Msgr. Adriano Bernardini (裴納德) (76) (later Archbishop) (1988.01.22 – 1992.08.20)
• Chargé d’affaires:  Msgr. Piero Biggio (畢齊樂) (later Archbishop) (1986.04.06 – 1988.12.10)
• Chargé d’affaires:  Msgr. Paolo Giglio (吉立友) (later Archbishop) (1978.07.12 – 1986.04.04)
• Chargé d’affaires:  Msgr. Thomas A. White (陶懷德) (later Archbishop) (1974 – 1978.05.27)
• Chargé d’affaires:  Msgr. Francesco Colasuonno (高樂天) (later Cardinal) (1972.08.02 – 1974.12.06)

as of 2018.10.18

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