UK /Vatican

[sundsvall]

When did the UK establis diplomatic relations with the Vatican on an Ambassadorail leval.? And who was he?

[graemer]

The Most Rev Bruno Heims who died in 2003 was appointed Ambassador in 1982;

See his obituary:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,921147,00.html

[graemer]

Sorry Bruno Heim not Heims!

[graemer]

Oh No I've got it round the wrong way he was the Vatican Ambassador to Britain. Having a bad day indeed today!

[Artemis]

A Vatican Ambassador to other countries is called A Papal Nuncio.

[Avenches]

Google reult: History
Popes in their secular role ruled much of the Italian peninsula, including Rome, for about a thousand years, until 1870. A dispute between a series of popes and Italy was settled in 1929 by treaties that recognized the Vatican City as an independent sovereignty and gave Roman Catholicism special status in Italy. The US established formal diplomatic relationships with the Vatican in 1984.

[Avenches]

The Most Rev Bruno Heim, who has died aged 92, was proud of his own small corner in diplomatic history. In 1982, he became the Vatican's first fully fledged ambassador to Britain since the Reformation. Previously, relations between the two had been conducted, if at all, at a lower level. When first appointed in 1973, Heim was simply apostolic delegate to Britain, but when ties were upgraded between London and the Holy See, he took on the title of Apostolic Pro-Nuncio - and served in his own flamboyant way until his retirement in 1985. Bruno Bernard Heim, priest, born March 5 1911; died March 18 2003