Nuncio

Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti

A profile of the former Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain, His Excellency Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti.

Pope Francis named Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti as Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain on Saturday, 4 July 2020.

Claudio Gugerotti was born in Verona, Italy, in 1955 and ordained a priest of the Diocese of Verona in 1982. He studied Eastern Languages and Sacred Liturgy and was a professor of Patristics, Eastern Liturgy at the Institute of Ecumenical Studies in Verona from 1981 to 1985.

In 1985, he was appointed as an official working at the Congregation for the Eastern Churches and he became its Undersecretary in 1997. He has also taught at the Pontifical Oriental Institute.

On 7 December 2001, Pope St John Paul II appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Georgia and to Armenia. He was also subsequently appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Azerbaijan on 13 December.

He received his episcopal consecration by Pope St John Paul on 6 January 2002 appointing him to the Titular See of Ravello.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus in 2011 and Pope Francis appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine in 2015.

On 21 November 2022, Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Gugerotti prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches.