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Pedro López Quintana (born 27 July 1953 in Barbastra, Spain) is a Catholic archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See. ==Biography== His parents were from Galicia. He entered the Compostelano seminary where he did his ecclesiastical studies and graduated in theology, he was ordained as a priest on 15 June 1980 by Pope John Paul II and after his ordination began his priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela. He later continued his studies in Rome, earning a licentiate in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the ''Angelicum''). On 27 August 1986 Pope John Paul II appointed him a chaplain of His Holiness with the title monsignor.〔.〕 Since 22 July 1997, he was adviser to the Secretary of State of the Holy See, until 12 December 2002 when Pope John Paul II appointed him as new Titular Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Acropolis, receiving episcopal consecration on 6 January 2003 at the hands of Pope John Paul II, co-consecrated by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri and Antonio Maria Vegliò . On 8 February of that year, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal. On 10 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him nuncio to Canada, a post he resigned on 28 September 2013. On 8 March 2014, Pope Francis appointed him apostolic nuncio to Lithuania.〔http://www.microsofttranslator.com/BV.aspx?ref=IE8Activity&a=http%3A%2F%2Fpress.vatican.va%2Fcontent%2Fsalastampa%2Fen%2Fbollettino%2Fpubblico%2F2014%2F03%2F08%2F0170%2F00358.html〕 On 22 March 2014, Pope Francis also appointed him nuncio to Estonia and to Latvia.〔http://www.microsofttranslator.com/BV.aspx?ref=IE8Activity&a=http%3A%2F%2Fpress.vatican.va%2Fcontent%2Fsalastampa%2Fen%2Fbollettino%2Fpubblico%2F2014%2F03%2F22%2F0197%2F00436.html〕 This continues the recent practice of having a single apostolic nuncio representing the Holy See in the Baltic states but residing at the nunciature in Vilnius. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pedro López Quintana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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