Pedro López Quintana

Pedro López Quintana (born 27 July 1953 in Barbastro, Spain) is a Catholic archbishop and diplomat of the Holy See.

Biography
His parents were from Galicia. He entered the Compostelano seminary where he did his ecclesiastical studies and graduated in theology, he was ordained as a priest on 15 June 1980 by Pope John Paul II and after his ordination began his priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela.

He later continued his studies in Rome, earning a licentiate in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum).

On 27 August 1986 Pope John Paul II appointed him a chaplain of His Holiness with the title monsignor.

Since 22 July 1997, he was adviser to the Secretary of State of the Holy See, until 12 December 2002 when Pope John Paul II appointed him as new titular Archbishop of Acropolis, receiving episcopal consecration on 6 January 2003 from Pope John Paul II. On 8 February of that year, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal. On 10 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him nuncio to Canada, a post he resigned on 28 September 2013.

On 8 March 2014, Pope Francis appointed him apostolic nuncio to Lithuania. On 22 March 2014, Pope Francis also appointed him nuncio to Estonia and to Latvia.  This continues the recent practice of having a single apostolic nuncio representing the Holy See in the Baltic states but residing at the nunciature in Vilnius.

On 4 March 2019 Francis named him Apostolic Nuncio to Austria.

References

External links
 catholic-hierarchy.org 
 Most Rev. Pedro Lopez Quintana

Category:Spanish titular archbishops
Category:Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy alumni
Category:Apostolic Nuncios to Canada
Category:Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas alumni
Category:Pontifical Gregorian University alumni
Category:Apostolic Nuncios to India
Category:Apostolic Nuncios to Nepal
Category:Apostolic Nuncios to Estonia
Category:Apostolic Nuncios to Latvia
Category:Apostolic Nuncios to Lithuania
Category:Apostolic Nuncios to Austria
Category:1953 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Barbastro