Archbishop Gabriele Caccia becomes the new Apostolic Nuncio to the United States
- Mar 7
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Pope Leo appointed Archbishop Gabriele Caccia the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. Caccia is leaving his post as Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York, where he has served since 2019. Caccia succeeds Cardinal Christophe Pierre, who reached the 80-year age limit January 30.
Oregonians will remember Cardinal Pierre from his genial presentation at the July 10 press conference, announcing the appointment of Rev. Thomas Hennen as bishop-elect of the Diocese of Baker, and again on Sept. 29, when Pierre formally presented the Mandate from the Apostolic See for Hennen’s ordination as a bishop, the youngest in the United States.
Caccia was born in Milan, Italy in 1958 and ordained a priest in 1983. He earned a Doctorate in Theology and a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University. Caccia joined the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See in 1991 and served in Tanzania and, later, in the Section for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State. In 2017, Pope Francis nominated him apostolic nuncio to the Philippines and two years later, as Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations.
Caccia noted that he was honored and humbled by the appointment as nuncio to the country and the church where Pope Leo was born and raised, and that it begins in the 250th commemorative year of the founding of the United States. He characterized his new role to be "as a mission at the service of communion and peace."
