Giovanni Tonucci

File:Coat of arms of Giovanni Tonucci.svg

Coat of arms of Giovanni Tonucci.

Monsignor Giovanni Tonucci (born December 4, 1941 in Fano, PU, Italy) is a Latin Rite Italian archbishop of the Catholic Church. He was recently named the Territorial Prelate of Loreto. His previous post was as the Apostolic Nuncio (Papal ambassador) to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway.

Diplomatic activity

From 1971 till the end of 1973 his diplomatic career brought him first to Yaoundé, Cameroon, then, from 1974 to 1976 he was in London, United Kingdom. From July 1976 he was back in Rome, assigned to the Section for General Affairs of the Holy See Secretariat of State where he worked with Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, until being transferred, in April 1978, to the Section for the Relations with States under the guide of Msgr. Achille Silvestrini. At the end of the 1984 he was assigned to the Apostolic Nunciature in Belgrade, at that time still the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, where he worked until the summer of 1987 before being transferred to the Nunicature to the United States in Washington, D.C., USA.

File:Archbishop Giovanni Tonucci Of Loreto.JPG

Archbishop Giovanni Tonucci (Territorial Prelate of Loreto) at celebrations of the feast of Our Lady of Loreto in Għajnsielem on the occasion of the 25th and 125th anniversaries of the consecration of village’s old and new churches. Location of celebration dinner was at the Grand Hotel in Gozo

On October 21, 1989 Tonucci was appointed Titular Archbishop of Torcello and Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia. He was consecrated as a Bishop on January 6, 1990 by Pope John Paul II as principal consecrator, with principal co-consecrators Msgr. Giovanni Battista Re and Msgr. Miroslav Stefan Marusyn. He remained in Bolivia until March 9, 1996 when he was named the Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya and the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN Environment and Human Settlements Programs (UNEP/UN–HABITAT).

Since October 16, 2004 he has been the Apostolic Nuncio (with residence in Stockholm) to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway, where he succeed Msgr. Piero Biggio.

On October 18, 2007 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Loreto and Pontifical Delegate for the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto.

Family

His brother, don Paolo Maria Tonucci has been a missionary in Brazil from 1965 to 1994, during which he courageously conducted a battle for the rights of the poor people against the usurpations of the military dictatorship, fights that cost to him the title of "unworthy person" to receive the Brazilian citizenship.

Works

• Giovanni Tonucci, "God's letter to me – 101 questions and answers on the Bible".
• Giovanni Tonucci, Roberto Ansuini; "Don Paolo". Text by Paolo Tonucci [and oth.], Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Fano, Grapho 5, 2004.
• Giovanni Tonucci, "Visioni di un pellegrino. Le foto di Mzee Mwenda". Edited in Italian and English, Velar, 2006. ISBN 88-7135-233-5.
• Giovanni Tonucci, Massimo Ciavaglia, "El Vangel cum l'ha scrit San Marc". (dialect of Fano), Ven. Confraternitas Sanctae Mariae Suffragii, Fano, 2007.

Episcopal Lineage and Apostolic Succession

• Scipione Cardinal Rebiba † (1577)
• Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
• Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
• Mons. Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
• Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
• Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
• Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
• Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
• Pope Benedict XIII † (1675)
• Pope Benedict XIV † (1724)
• Pope Clement XIII † (1743)
• Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
• Pope Leo XII † (1794)
• Clarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
• Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
• Mieczysław Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
• Jan Maurycy Pawel Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko † (1886)
• Mons. St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
• Mons. Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
• Mons. Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
• Pope John Paul II † (2004)
• Mons. Giovanni Tonucci

See also

• Nuncio
• Apostolic Nunciature
• Diplomatic missions of the Holy See
• Diplomacy of the Holy See
• John Anthony Kaiser

References

• Data reported at the page [1] on www.catholic-hierarchy.org
• Data reported at the page [2] on www.gcatholic.org

Preceded by ?	Alternate Permanent Observer to the OAS 1987 – October 21, 1989	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by Gino Paro	Archbishop of Torcello October 21, 1989 – October 18, 2007	Succeeded by Gianfranco Gardin
Preceded by Santos Abril y Castelló	Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia October 21, 1989 – March 9, 1996	Succeeded by Giacomo Guido Ottonello
Preceded by Clemente Faccani	Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya March 9, 1996 – October 16, 2004	Succeeded by Alain Paul Charles Lebeaupin
Preceded by None	Permanent Observer to UNEP/UN-HABITAT 1997 – October 16, 2004	Succeeded by Alain Paul Charles Lebeaupin
Preceded by Piero Biggio	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway October 16, 2004 – October 18, 2007	Succeeded by Emil Paul Tscherrig
Preceded by Gianni Danzi	Prelate of Loreto October 18, 2007 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent