Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital explained

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]

Career

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]

Honours

National honours

Foreign honours

Publications

Notes and References

  1. https://dre.pt/web/guest/pesquisa/-/search/basic?q=Domingos+Fezas+Vital Diário da República
  2. Web site: Ordem de Malta . 2023-02-28 . Portal Diplomático . pt-pt.
  3. Web site: Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital. Assembleia da República. 3 August 2017.
  4. Web site: Novo embaixador de Portugal apresentou credenciais – L'Osservatore Romano . 2022-05-02 . www.osservatoreromano.va . pt.
  5. Web site: 2022-03-05 . Vaticano: Embaixador de Portugal junto da Santa Sé apresenta cartas credenciais ao Papa Francisco . 2022-05-02 . Agência ECCLESIA . pt-PT.
  6. Web site: Decreto do Presidente da República n.º 103/2021, de 16 de dezembro . 2022-05-02 . dre.pt . pt.
  7. Web site: Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Nacionais. Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. 3 August 2017.
  8. Web site: Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Estrangeiras. Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. 3 August 2017.
  9. Web site: Why the U.S. and Europe need each other, now more than ever . English . December 6, 2019 . dallasnews.com . February 28, 2023 .