Luigi Pezzuto


Luigi Pezzuto is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
He has been the Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 17 November 2012.

Biography

He was born in Squinzano, Italy. He was ordained a priest on 25 September 1971.
Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Archbishop of Turris in Proconsulari and Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of the Congo and to Gabon on 7 December 1996. He received his episcopal consecration on 6 January 1997.
He was named Nuncio to Tanzania on 22 May 1999.
On 2 April 2005 John Paul named him Nuncio to El Salvador
and on 7 May to Belize as well.
Pope Benedict XVI named him Nuncio to Bosnia-Herzegovina and to Montenegro on 17 November 2012.
He was named Apostolic Nuncio to Monaco as well on 16 January 2016. His term as nuncio there ended with the appointment of his successor on 25 May 2019.