Giambattista Diquattro
Giambattista Diquattro | |
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Apostolic Nuncio to India | |
See | Titular Archbishop of Giru Mons |
Previous post(s) | Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia Apostolic Nuncio to Panama |
Orders | |
Ordination | 24 August 1981 by Angelo Rizzo |
Consecration | 4 June 2005 by Angelo Sodano |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Motto | Nomen meum tene |
Coat of arms | ![]() |
Giambattista Diquattro is an Italian archbishop and Vatican diplomat. On 21 January 2017, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal by Pope Francis.[1] Prior to that he was Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia.
Biography
Diquattro was born on 18 March 1954, in Bologna, the capital and the largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy and was ordained a priest for the diocese of Ragusa in 1981.[2] He received his master's degree in civil law from the University of Catania, his Doctorate in Canon Law (JCD) from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, and his master's degree in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.[3]
He joined the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See on 1 May 1985, and served in diplomatic missions in the pontifical representations to the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad, the United Nations in New York, and later in the Vatican Secretariat of State, and in the Apostolic Nunciature in Italy. He was appointed as the apostolic nuncio to Panama in 2005 by Pope John Paul II and apostolic nuncio to Bolivia in 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI.