Movement (1–6 September 1986). On 25 January 1990 he was appointed Nuncio to Ethiopia and also became Apostolic Delegate to Djibouti on 26 March 1992 and on 30 September 1995 Nuncio to Eritrea. Coveney became Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand, Tonga, the Marshall Islands, and Samoa, and Apostolic Delegate for Oceania on 27 April 1996. His remit was expanded to include Apostolic Nuncio to Fiji, Kiribati, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Vanuatu on 15 October 1996, and Apostolic Nuncio to Nauru on 7 December 1996. He was also named apostolic nuncio to the Cook Islands and Palau on 14 July 2001. As the longest-serving resident diplomatic representative to New Zealand, Archbishop Coveney served for a time as Dean of the Diplomatic Corps. While based in Wellington, he also represented the Holy See at the inauguration of Chen Shui-bian as president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) on 18 May 2004. Coveney's last diplomatic appointment was as Apostolic Nuncio to Greece on 25 January 2005. On 5 November 2008, he officiated at the presentation to the Acropolis Museum in Athens of a fragment of the Parthenon Frieze on loan from the Vatican Museums. Coveney retired in 2009, and died on 22 October 2022, at the age of 88. Notes See also List of heads of the diplomatic missions of the Holy See References 1934 births 2022 deaths Roman Catholic titular archbishops Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II People from County Cork Pontifical Irish College alumni Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy alumni 20th-century Roman Catholics 21st-century Roman Catholics Diplomats of the Holy See Apostolic Nuncios to New Zealand Apostolic Nuncios to Fiji Apostolic Nuncios to Palau Apostolic Nuncios to Kiribati Apostolic Nuncios to Tonga Apostolic Nuncios to Nauru Apostolic Nuncios to Vanuatu Apostolic Nuncios to the Cook Islands Apostolic Nuncios to the Federated States of Micronesia Apostolic Nuncios to the Marshall Islands Apostolic Nuncios to Samoa Apostolic Nuncios to the Pacific Ocean Apostolic Nuncios to Zimbabwe Apostolic Nuncios to Ethiopia Apostolic Nuncios to Djibouti Apostolic Nuncios to Greece Alumni of The Irish College, Rome Irish Roman Catholic titular bishops