Patrick Coveney

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Archbishop Patrick Coveney (29 July 1934 - ) is the current Papal Nuncio (that is, ambassador of the Holy See) to Greece.

Coveney was born in Cork, Ireland, and was ordained as a priest in 1959, aged twenty-four. In 1985, he was made titular Archbishop of Satrianum — his title of Archbishop derives from this appointment, not from a bishopric in Greece. He became Nuncio to New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, and the Marshall Islands on 13 August 1996. His remit was expanded to include Fiji, Kiribati, the Federated States of Micronesia, Vanuatu, and Nauru later that year, and to include the Cook Islands and Palau in 2001. As the longest-serving diplomatic representative to New Zealand, Archbishop Coveney served for a time as Dean of the Diplomatic Corps. He was then appointed Nuncio to Greece in 2005.