How to Use nuncio in a Sentence

nuncio

noun
  • The man on the other end of the line identified himself as the papal nuncio.
    — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
  • In the letter, Francis said the plan fell apart because the nuncio revealed it.
    — Fox News, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The Vatican yearbook lists three counselors who work under the nuncio, or ambassador.
    — Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • So have all the ambassadors in Kyiv except the one from Poland and the papal nuncio from the Vatican.
    — Waldemar Januszczak For The Times, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Ortega kicked out the papal nuncio, the Vatican's top diplomat in March.
    — Megan Janetsky, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023
  • DeGeorge wrote to Christophe Pierre, whose title as ambassador is nuncio.
    — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2019
  • If a bishop or a nuncio—one of the Vatican's ambassadors in the country—has an issue, the Pope is very quick to respond.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Reached by phone, Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio, or Vatican ambassador, deferred to the statement.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Marino has been serving as apostolic nuncio to Malaysia and East Timor, and apostolic delegate to Brunei.
    — Greg Garrison | [email protected], al, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The nuncio also accused the left-wing billionaire George Soros of funding the Jesuits, a Catholic order of priests.
    — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The ceremony will be presided over by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States.
    — Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025
  • In 2014, the nuncio to Peru was James Green, a Philadelphian whom Prevost had come to know in Rome.
    — Paul Elie, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • On Saturday, the Vatican announced that the Nicaraguan government had expelled the papal nuncio, Msgr.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The award typically requires recommendations from bishops or Papal nuncios.
    — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 12 June 2018
  • The Dicastery for Bishops organizes such appointments, via the Vatican’s ambassador to the country—the nuncio.
    — Paul Elie, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Quirk wrote to diocese financial officials in a 2016 email regarding a gift that Bransfield sent to Vigano’s successor as nuncio, Christophe Pierre.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
  • His decision to appeal prompted Bruckner, who works as a ministry assistant at a Colorado nondenominational church, to ask Pierre, the apostolic nuncio, to review the court record.
    — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • In August 2015, Denton reported his rape to Apuron’s superior, the apostolic nuncio for the Pacific.
    — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The bishops’ conference is no longer organizing the talks with the government, although the papal nuncio, Archbishop Waldemar Sommertag, is participating.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 23 July 2019

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