{"id":25815,"date":"2025-09-15T10:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/speakers\/paul-richard-gallagher\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:42:05","slug":"paul-richard-gallagher","status":"publish","type":"speakers","link":"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/paul-richard-gallagher\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Richard Gallagher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monsignor Paul Richard Gallagher is an archbishop and, since 2022, has held the position of Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations. 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This was followed by appointments as apostolic nuncio to Guatemala in 2012 and then to Australia in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his aforementioned role as Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, he also serves as Titular Archbishop of Hodelm (since 2004) and Secretary of the Interdepartmental Commission for Churches in Eastern Europe (since 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25812,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paul Richard Gallagher - Festival della Diplomazia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mons. 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