Posted on 08/01/2014 8:57:09 AM PDT by Salvation
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LEGATUS NATUS
Holder of a certain office that conferred a legatine status ex officio, e.g., before the Reformation the Archbishop of Canterbury, who performed some of the functions now carried out by a papal nuncio.
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