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PONTIFICAL
SECRETARIAT
Credentials
Sovereign
entities follow international norms for isuue of identification cards
and other documents to citizens, government officials, diplomats, and
visitors. Accordingly, the Pontifical Secretariat issues various
identity documents, including clerical identity cards, ecclesiastical
passports (laissez-passer) and diplomatic credentials for select
members of the Patriarchal Curia, Pontifical Court, and diplomatic
corps, identity cards for members of the Pontifical Walsingham Guard,
and other documents on an as needed basis. The Secretariat is the
competent authority to issue identification of the government of the
Stato Pontificio Imperiale, the Apostolic See of Saints Stephen and
Mark, and the United Roman-Ruthenian Church as an ecclesiastical sovereign
entity. (See
also APS
7.5.)
Information
on the Use of Credentials
Exemplars of Curial Ecclesiastical Diplomatic Identity Documents
Ecclesiastical
diplomatic Laissez-Passer card with Insignia of the Apostolic See of Sts. Stephen and Mark.
Documents
of Ecclesiastical Diplomatic Accreditation in a formerly-used style. The current style is similar.
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