Domingos Fezas Vital | |
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Portuguese Ambassador to the Holy See & Portuguese Ambassador to the Sovereign Order of Malta | |
Assumed office 16 December 2021 | |
President | Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
Prime Minister | António Costa |
Preceded by | António de Almeida Lima |
Portuguese Ambassador to the United States | |
In office 10 September 2015 –16 December 2021 | |
President | Aníbal Cavaco Silva Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
Prime Minister | Pedro Passos Coelho António Costa |
Preceded by | Nuno Brito |
Succeeded by | Francisco António Duarte Lopes |
Portuguese Ambassador to The Bahamas | |
Assumed office 13 March 2017 | |
President | Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
Prime Minister | António Costa |
Permanent Representative of Portugal to the European Union | |
In office 19 March 2012 –10 September 2015 | |
President | Aníbal Cavaco Silva Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
Prime Minister | Pedro Passos Coelho António Costa |
Personal details | |
Born | Luanda,Portuguese Angola | 27 September 1958
Spouse | Isabel Maria Rito de Oliveira Afonso de Fezas Vital |
Children | 2 |
Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital GOC,GCIH,ComIH (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]
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]
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