title: Apostolic Nunciature to Slovakia
text: # Apostolic Nunciature to Slovakia
  
  The Apostolic Nunciature to Slovakia is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Slovakia. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador.
  
  ## Apostolic Nuncios to Slovakia
  
  Archbishop Giovanni Coppa was named Apostolic Nuncio to Czechoslovakia on 30 June 1990. With the division on that country into Slovakia and the Czech Republic on 1 January 1993, Coppa became nuncio to each of them, based in Prague.
  
  * Giovanni Coppa (1 January 1993 – 2 March 1994)
  * Luigi Dossena (2 March 1994 – 8 February 2001)
  * Henryk Józef Nowacki 8 February 2001 – 28 November 2007)
  * Mario Giordana (15 March 2008 – 1 April 2017)
  * Giacomo Guido Ottonello (1 April 2017 – 31 October 2021)
  * Nicola Girasoli (2 July 2022 – present)
  