Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Domingos Fezas Vital | |
Honorific-Suffix: | GOC GCIH ComIH |
Office: | Portuguese Ambassador to the Holy See & Portuguese Ambassador to the Sovereign Order of Malta |
Term Start: | 16 December 2021 |
President: | Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
Primeminister: | António Costa |
Predecessor: | António de Almeida Lima |
Office2: | Portuguese Ambassador to the United States |
Term Start2: | 10 September 2015 |
Term End2: | 16 December 2021 |
President2: | Aníbal Cavaco Silva Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
Primeminister2: | Pedro Passos Coelho António Costa |
Predecessor2: | Nuno Brito |
Successor2: | Francisco António Duarte Lopes |
Office3: | Portuguese Ambassador to The Bahamas |
Term Start3: | 13 March 2017 |
President3: | Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
Primeminister3: | António Costa |
Office4: | Permanent Representative of Portugal to the European Union |
Term Start4: | 19 March 2012 |
Term End4: | 10 September 2015 |
President4: | Aníbal Cavaco Silva Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
Primeminister4: | Pedro Passos Coelho António Costa |
Birth Date: | 1958 9, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Luanda, Portuguese Angola |
Spouse: | Isabel Maria Rito de Oliveira Afonso de Fezas Vital |
Children: | 2 |
Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital (born 27 September 1958) is a Portuguese diplomat. He served as Portuguese Ambassador to the United States from September 2015 to December 2021 and to The Bahamas.[1] Currently he is the Portuguese Ambassador to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Order of Malta.[2]
Fezas Vital graduated from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a bachelor's degree in social and judicial sciences. He then studied international trade at the Free University of Brussels. Shortly after, in 1983, he joined the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he started his diplomatic career as an attaché.[3]
Throughout his diplomatic career Fezas Vital has held posts not only in embassies but also in international organisations, which Portugal is a member in, namely as a Portuguese representative to NATO and the Western European Union.
In 1996, three years before transfer of sovereignty over Macau, he was appointed diplomatic adviser to Governor Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira.
After his posting in Macau, Ambassador Fezas Vital returned to Portugal to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until he was appointed Consul General of Portugal in São Paulo in 2000.
In 2010 he was appointed Ambassador and in March 2012 he became the Representative of Portugal to the European Union, a post he held until being posted to the US as Ambassador of Portugal. After serving in the United States, Domingos Fezas Vital was appointed, in 2021, Portuguese Ambassador to the Holy See.[4] [5] [6]