<h6></h6> <h6><strong>Luis Ayllón</strong></h6> <h4><strong>George Gabriel Bologan, who was Romania's ambassador to Spain until last January, has been appointed to represent his country at the Holy See.</strong></h4> Bologan left his post in Madrid at the beginning of this year, after being appointed advisor to the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, and after having been at the head of the Romanian Embassy in Madrid since April 2022. George Bologan becomes <strong>the first ambassador of the Catholic religion from Romania to the Vatican.</strong> The new Romanian diplomatic representative previously held various positions in Italy, where he was ambassador until his appointment to Spain. Between 1995 and 2003 he was a journalist accredited to the Press Office of the Holy See for the television channel Telepace. He was then Cultural Attaché and Head of the Romanian Community at the Romanian Embassy in Rome, and later Consul General in Milan, before taking charge of the Embassy in Italy. The Romanian Embassy in Spain is awaiting the appointment of a new ambassador and, since the end of January, Minister Counsellor <strong>Raluca Mihăilă has been acting as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.</strong>
