Pietro Sambi
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Pietro Sambi (born June 27, 1938) is a Roman Catholic archbishop, currently serving as the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.
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Sambi was born in Sogliano sul Rubicone, Forlì, Italy. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1964, and began serving in the diplomatic service of the Secretariat of State in 1969, serving at the nunciatures in Cameroon, Jerusalem, Cuba, Algeria, Nicaragua, Belgium, and India.
On October 10, 1985, Sambi was named the pro-nuncio to Burundi by Pope John Paul II, and was ordained as a bishop as the titular archbishop of Belcastro. In 1991 he was made the pro-nuncio to Indonesia, and in 1998 was named nuncio to Israel and Cyprus and apostolic delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine. Pope Benedict XVI named Sambi the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States on December 17, 2005.
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- Archbishop Pietro Sambi Named Apostolic Nuncio to United States. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (2005). Retrieved on 2006-02-19.
- Archbishop Pietro Sambi. Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved on 2006-02-19.
