nunciature
/ˈnʌnsɪəˌtjʊə
/ /ˈnʌnsɪəˌtʃə/noun
The office or tenure of a nuncio in the Roman Catholic Church.Archbishop Montalvo wrote back to VOTO's steering committee that, ‘as a matter of course, the nunciature takes into judicious account all the information it receives from any quarter in the matter of the provision of a diocese.’...
- This time it was more successful, thanks to the nunciature of the Jesuit David Wolfe between 1561 and 1565.
- Following a question from The Sunday Business Post, the secretariat at the nunciature responded: ‘The Apostolic Nunciature would point out that it is not its practice to comment on any specific legal case.’
Origin
Early 17th century: from Italian nunziatura, from nunzio 'message-bearer' (see nuncio).