VATICAN CITY-STATE AMBASSADOR TO ATTEND FIRST PUBLIC FUNCTION IN BANGALORE

Bangaluru, May 4: Pope Francis’ newly appointed Vatican City-State Ambassador to India and Nepal Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro will preside over a public function of Cardinals, Bishops and priests in India.  His visit to the city is the first since his appointment on 21st January 2017. 

The Papal prelate and international political-head will be the Papal representative of Catholics in India and Nepal. Archbishop Rev. Dr. Bernard Moras who is spiritual-head of 4 million Catholics in Bangalore Archdiocese of will be welcoming the Ambassador at INFANT JESUS SHRINE, Viveknagar at a public function on MAY 4th, 2017 at 5.30pm while the Vatican Ambassador Giambattista Diquattro will address a gathering after a prayer service.

The Vatican ambassador who is Pope Francis’ representative for Catholics in India and Nepal will deliver his KEY-NOTE address and message from Pope Francis at a public function after a prayer service.

The Papal prelate has presided over the recent Standing Committee Meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) at St. John’s Medical College.

On January 21 Pope Francis appointed Archbishop ‎Giambattista Diquattro as the new ambassador to India and Nepal. The 62-year-old prelate has taken over from Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, whom ‎Pope Francis transferred to Poland as Apostolic Nuncio in August last year.   The Apostolic Nunciature (office of the ambassador) is based in the Indian capital New Delhi.  ‎

Born in Bologna 1954, Arch. Diquattro was ordained a priest for Ragusa Diocese in 1981.  He was ‎appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Panama in April, 2005 and was ordained a bishop two months later.  He ‎was transferred to Bolivia as Apostolic Nuncio in November, 2008, where he served until he was assigned his new mission to India and Nepal.‎