The Spanish government of Pedro Sánchez has finally unblocked the appointment of Archbishop Piero Pioppo as the Holy See’s new Apostolic Nuncio to Spain, following months of diplomatic delay.
The Council of Ministers is expected to confirm the 64-year-old Italian archbishop at its first post-summer meeting, ending a five-month freeze that had strained relations between Madrid and the Vatican, reports The Objective, a Spanish digital newspaper founded in 2013.
The nomination of Archbishop Pioppo, currently the Vatican’s Nuncio to Indonesia, had been on hold since March. For months, the Spanish government withheld its approval, coinciding with growing tensions between Sánchez’s cabinet and the Spanish Bishops’ Conference.
