List of ambassadors of Spain to Lithuania

For the Spanish ambassadors during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, see List of ambassadors of Spain to Poland.

Ambassador of Spain to Lithuania
Coat of arms of Spain
Incumbent José Fernando Fernández-Aguayo Muñoz since 1 July 2025
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretariat of State for the European Union
Style	The Most Excellent
Residence	Vilnius
Nominator	The Foreign Minister
Appointer	The Monarch
Term length	At the government's pleasure
Inaugural holder	Carlos Fernández-Longoria y Pavía
Formation	1991
Website	Mission of Spain to Lithuania

The ambassador of Spain to Lithuania is the official representative of the Kingdom of Spain to the Republic of Lithuania.

Lithuania and Spain maintained diplomatic relations in the past, during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, however, these were managed through the ambassador in Warsaw, seat of the royal court. After Lithuania's independence, Spain recognized the country on 27 July 1922. ^[1] Since 1929, the Spanish minister to Latvia was also accredited to Lithuania, and it served until 1940, when the Soviet Union invaded the country. Diplomatic relations were re-established on 7 October 1991. ^[2] The ambassador to Denmark assumed the diplomatic and consular affairs until 2004, when Spain created a resident embassy in the Vilnius. ^[2]

List of ambassadors

This list was compiled using the work "History of the Spanish Diplomacy" by the Spanish historian and diplomat Miguel Ángel Ochoa Brun. ^[3] The work covers up to the year 2000, so the rest is based on appointments published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado .

List of ministers to the First Lithuanian Republic (1922–1940)

During this period, the minister was resident in Riga, Latvia.

Name	Term	Rank
Eduardo García Comin	1929–1932	Minister
Bunaventura Caro y del Arroyo	1932	Minister
Jesús de Encío y Cortés	1936	Chargé d'affaires
Ceferino Palencia y Álvarez-Tubau	1936–1939	Chargé d'affaires
Luis de Olivares y Bruguera	1939–1940	Chargé d'affaires

List of ambassadors to Lithuania (1991–present)

Resident in Copenhagen, Denmark until 2004.

Name		Term	Rank
1	Carlos Fernández-Longoria y Pavía	1991–1993	Ambassador
2	Jesús Ezquerra Calvo	1993–1994	Ambassador
3	Antonio de Oyarzábal Marchesi	1995–1996	Ambassador
4	José Luis Pardos  ( es )	1997–2001	Ambassador
5	José María Pons Irazazábal [4]	2001–2004	Ambassador
6	Fidel López Álvarez [5]	2004–2007	Ambassador
7	José Luis Solano Gadea [6]	2007–2011	Ambassador
8	Miguel Antonio Arias Estévez  ( es ) [7]	2011–2014	Ambassador
9	Emilio Fernández-Castaño y Díaz-Caneja [8]	2014–2018	Ambassador
10	José María Robles Fraga [9]	2018–2022	Ambassador
11	María Nieves Blanco Díaz  ( es ) [10]	2022–2025	Ambassador
12	José Fernando Fernández-Aguayo Muñoz  ( es ) [11]	2025–present	Ambassador

See also

• Lithuania–Spain relations

References

1. "Centenario de las relaciones diplomáticas entre Lituania y España | Embajada de la República de Lituania ante el Reino de España". Centenario de las relaciones diplomáticas entre Lituania y España | Embajada de la República de Lituania ante el Reino de España (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2025.
2. Diplomatic Information Office (August 2025). "Country profile - Lithuania" (PDF). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Spanish). p. 5. Retrieved December 17, 2025.
3. Ochoa Brun, Miguel Ángel (2000). "History of the Spanish Diplomacy - DIPLOMATIC REPERTOIRE- CHRONOLOGICAL LISTS OF REPRESENTATIVES - From the Early Middle Ages to the year 2000" (PDF). www.exteriores.gob.es (in Spanish). pp. 235–237. Retrieved December 17, 2025.
4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (April 7, 2001). "Real Decreto 386/2001, de 6 de abril, por el que se designa a don José María Pons Irazazábal, Embajador de España en la República de Lituania". Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2025.
5. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (March 6, 2004). "Real Decreto 376/2004, de 5 de marzo, por el que se designa Embajador de España en la República de Lituania a don Fidel López Álvarez". Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2025.
6. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (October 30, 2007). "Real Decreto 1422/2007, de 29 de octubre, por el que se designa Embajador de España en la República de Lituania a don José Luis Solano Gadea". Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2025.
7. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (January 22, 2011). "Real Decreto 69/2011, de 21 de enero, por el que se designa Embajador de España en la República de Lituania a don Miguel Antonio Arias Estévez". Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2025.
8. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (June 14, 2014). "Real Decreto 483/2014, de 13 de junio, por el que se designa Embajador de España en la República de Lituania a don Emilio Fernández-Castaño y Díaz-Caneja". Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2025.
9. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (September 8, 2018). "Real Decreto 1145/2018, de 7 de septiembre, por el que se designa Embajador de España en la República de Lituania a don José María Robles Fraga". Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2025.
10. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (August 2, 2022). "Real Decreto 679/2022, de 1 de agosto, por el que se designa Embajadora de España en la República de Lituania a doña María Nieves Blanco Díaz". Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2025.
11. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (July 2, 2025). "Real Decreto 584/2025, de 1 de julio, por el que se designa Embajador de España en la República de Lituania a don José Fernando Fernández-Aguayo Muñoz". Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2025.