Papal legate
（重定向自Legatine）
![A woodcut showing Henry II of England greeting the pope's legate.](/Images/godic/202501/23/K._Henry_2._Kissing_the_knee_of_the_Popes_Legate_comming_into_England3350.gif")
![Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, papal legate to England during the reign of Henry VIII](/Images/godic/202501/23/Cardinal_Wolsey_Christ_Church3350.jpg")
![Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone, sometime papal nuncio to Urbino, Ferrara, Venice, Parma, and England.](/Images/godic/202501/23/Giovanni_Francesco_Commendone3350.PNG")
A papal legate or Apostolic legate (from the Ancient Roman title legatus) is a personal representative of the pope to foreign nations, or to some part of the Catholic Church. He is empowered on matters of Catholic Faith and for the settlement of ecclesiastical matters.