apostolic delegate
- noun
- Formal
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delegado apostólico
- In 1893, it sent an apostolic delegate to Washington, D.C.; it continued to dispatch and receive other diplomatic missions and signed many international agreements (concordats) with various sovereign states.
Examples
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Some cautious approaches were sometimes shown by Valeri—certainly the apostolic delegate who showed the most interest in the internal dynamics of the Zionist movement.
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In that year, he was appointed apostolic delegate to Egypt; two years later, he also joined the Apostolic Delegation to Jerusalem.
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The apostolic delegate's efforts to improve the vital relations with the British administration met with more success than the intra-ecclesiastic issues he faced.
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The difficulties that the apostolic delegates encountered in favoring the Melkites were caused by the resistance of the Latin clergy.
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In 1960 at Loyola University, Archbishop Egidio Vagnazzi, apostolic delegate to the United States, said:
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"The Vatican was directly involved through Pio Laghi, its apostolic delegate to Washington, D.C., with the Catholic members of Reagan's team, according to the Time article.
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In 1929, he was appointed apostolic delegate to Malta, and the following year apostolic nuncio to Dublin, where he remained until his death, exercising great political influence.
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In light of the above, it would seem reasonable to assert that, since 1929, the presence in Palestine of apostolic delegates played an important role in the detachment of the Catholic institutions and clergy from open contiguity with Arab nationalism.
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The presence of an apostolic delegate with fixed residence in Jerusalem would have reinforced the position of the Eastern Catholics, one in line with a policy of openness toward the Eastern Catholic rites that the Holy See had adopted since the papacy of Leo XIII.
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The apostolic delegate represents the Holy See in countries without formal diplomatic relations.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The headword combines 'apostolic' (pertaining to the pope/Holy See) and 'delegate' (a representative), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes a representative of the Holy See. While the precise diplomatic nuance (appointment to states without formal relations) is a specialized detail, it does not prevent understanding the core meaning from the parts.
Etymology
Apostolic delegate comes from two simple ideas: apostolic (from the early 'apostles' who were sent to share the church's message) and delegate (a person sent to 'represent' someone else). So an apostolic delegate is a person the Pope sends to speak for him to local churches or in countries that have no formal government ties with the Vatican.
