Pontifical Delegate
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A Pontifical Delegate is a cleric who is delegated by the Pope. Specifically, this title is used for:
- the Bishop (often Archbishop and/or Cardinal), permanently delegated by the Pope to one of his pontifical basilicas (there are four, all in Italy, not major basicilas), considered as part of the Roman curia
- an extraordinary papal representative to a religious congregation, e.g. the thirty third General Congregation of the Jesuits
- the papal delegate to
- a papal representative, appointed to exercise certain rights reserved, thus limiting the authority of a Major archbishop, as in the case of the Syro-Malabar church [1].
