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Gabriele Montalvo became ambassador of The Holy See to the United States on Jan. 21, 1999. Ambassador Montalvo was born in Colombia on Jan. 27, 1930, and ordained as a priest for the Archdiocese of Santafe de Bogota on Jan. 18, 1953. After receiving a doctorate in canon law at the Lateran University in Rome, he entered diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1957. From 1964 to 1974, he served as the secretariat of state in the section for Eastern European countries. In 1974, he was appointed apostolic nuncio to Nicaragua and Honduras. In 1982, he was chosen as a member of the papal mediation office for resolving the controversy between Argentina and Chile. Four years later, Montalvo was appointed apostolic pro-nuncio to Yugoslavia, a post he held for 10 years until 1996. On Dec. 7, 1999, Pope John Paul II appointed him apostolic nuncio to the United States.
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