The day after the Cloyne report was published on 13 July 2011, Archbishop Leanza met Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore. On 25 July 2011, he was recalled to the Secretariat of State for consultations as a sign, among other things, of "surprise and disappointment at certain excessive reactions". On 15 September 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Leanza Nuncio to the Czech Republic, remaining in the post until 21 September 2018, having been replaced by South Sudan nuncio Charles Daniel Balvo.