What Is A Papal Legate?

[badwolf29]

don’t use fancy language, I don’t understand it.

[Mamyalynne]

// A personal representative of the pope to foreign nations, or to some part of the Catholic Church. He is empowered on matters of Catholic faith and for the settlement of ecclesiastical matters.//

[naomi24]

It’s someone sent on a mission by the Pope as his representative.

[Mamyalynne]

More here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_legate

[DTCwordfan]

a religious equivalent of an ambassador - Papal obviously being Catholic.

[badwolf29]

@naomi24 thanks, that helps xx

[Peter Pedant]

Ambassador from the Bishop of Rome - aka Pope
Depending on..... they get extra powers - to make and sign treaties, rather than take the text back to Rome and ask the pope to sign

or to grant a divorce - as in Henry VIII case 1529

[jourdain2]

Can 't improve on naomi's answer. There's a chunk of detail, but that's basically it.

[Jackdaw33]

The papal legate did not grant Henry VIII a divorce, hence the split from Rome.

[naomi24]

You’re welcome, badwolf. Thanks for best answer.