List of ambassadors of Italy to Romania explained

Post:	Ambassador
Body:	Italy to Romania
Native Name:	Ambasciatore d'Italia al Romania
Insigniasize:	150px
Incumbent:	Alfredo Maria Durante Mangoni
Style:	His Excellency
Website:	http://www.ambbucarest.esteri.it/ambasciata_bucarest/it/ambasciata/

Ambassadors of Italy have been sent to Romania from as early as October 27, 1878, when the Romanian Principality gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire (as a result of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878).

Annibale Strambio was appointed Consul and Agent of the Kingdom of Sardinia in Bucharest soon after the emergence of the United Principalities through the 1859 union between Moldavia and Wallachia (at a time when, in the aftermath of the Crimean War, Sardinia was one of the European powers overseeing the new state). Between the two dates, Sardinia ensured Italian unification, with Strambio being the first to represent the new Italian state.

Consuls and Agents (1859-1878)

Name	Date of appointment
	March 20, 1859
	October 23, 1865
	February 22, 1867
	September 27, 1868

Ministers Plenipotentiary (1878-1945)

Name	Date of appointment
	October 27, 1878
	December 5, 1879
	January 2, 1888
	February 3, 1895
	June 18, 1911
	August 1, 1919
	March 1, 1923
	October 1, 1925
	March 8, 1928
	October 27, 1932
	December 23, 1938
	July 11, 1941

Chargés d'Affaires (1945-1947)

Name	Date of appointment
	March 13, 1945
	February 20, 1947

Ministers Plenipotentiary (1947-1964)

Name	Date of appointment
	October 17, 1947
	March 14, 1951
	May 22, 1955
	October 23, 1959

Ambassadors (1964-)

Name	Date of appointment	observations
	July 15, 1964
	November 5, 1964
	September 30, 1972
	March 24, 1975
	August 10, 1981
	September 23, 1985
	November 12, 1988
	July 15, 1991
	January 16, 1995
	April 30, 1998
	May 12, 2003
	November 7, 2005
	February 2013	(*He was born in Rome in 1961) In 1985 he graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1986 he entered the diplomatic service. From 1988 to 1995 he was employed at the Italian Embassies in Pakistan and in Jordan. He returned to Rome and served in the Middle East and Mediterranean Office of the General Directorate for Political Affairs of the Farnesina. From 1999 to 2007 he was sent to Lebanon, at the Embassy of Italy in Beirut, and he was Consul General in Los Angeles. From 2007 to 2010 he was the head of the Foreign Ministry Office responsible for the G8 political agenda, anti-terrorism and the fight against organized crime. From 2010 to 2012 he was President of the Interministerial Committee for Human rights.^[1]
		born in Ancona)^[2]
Alfredo Maria Durante Mangoni

References

• Site of the Italian Embassy in Bucharest (Cronologia dei capi di missione italiani in Romania; Cronologia şefilor de misiune italieni în România)
• Mihai Pelin (Jurnalul Naţional),
  • "Supravegheaţi - Diplomaţi italieni sub lupa Securităţii" ("Under Surveillance - Italian Diplomats under the Securitate's Magnifying Glass"), January 4, 2007
  • "Operaţiunea 'Infiltrarea' - Legaţia italiană sub asediul regimului comunist (5)" ("Operation 'Infiltration' - the Italian Legation under the Siege of the Communist Regime" (5)), March 15, 2007

Notes and References

1. Diego Brasioli, cv
2. http://www.ambbucarest.esteri.it/ambasciata_bucarest/ro/ambasciata/news/dall_ambasciata/2017/05/l-ambasciatore-d-italia-marco-giungi.html Marco Giungi