Giambattista Diquattro


Giambattista Diquattro is an Italian archbishop and Vatican diplomat. He has been Apostolic Nuncio to India and to Nepal since 2017. He was previously Nuncio to Bolivia.

Biography

Diquattro was born on 18 March 1954, in Bologna, the capital and the largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy and was ordained a priest for the diocese of Ragusa in 1981. He received his master's degree in civil law from the University of Catania, his Doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, and his master's degree in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
He joined the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See on 1 May 1985, and served in diplomatic missions in the pontifical representations to the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad, the United Nations in New York, and later in the Vatican Secretariat of State, and in the Apostolic Nunciature in Italy.
Pope John Paul II appointed him apostolic nuncio to Panama on 2 April 2005.
Pope Benedict XVI appointed him apostolic nuncio to Bolivia on 21 November 2008.
On 21 January 2017, Pope Francis named him Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal.