Dates of establishment of diplomatic relations with Francoist Spain: Difference between revisions

|align=center|[[Vatican City]] || June 1938 || Francoist Spain proclaimed itself a Catholic nation on 30 October 1936, hoping to win the support of the Vatican, which did not extend formal recognition. On 1 July 1937, the Letters of the Spanish Hierarchy were published, which detailed the Spanish Church's position on the war and stated that the Church endorsed Franco's forces.<ref name="Payne">{{Cite book|last=Payne|first=Stanley G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mgDWLYcTYIAC|title=The Franco Regime, 1936–1975|date=1987-11-15|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-11070-3|language=en}}</ref>{{rp|202}} In August, Pablo Churruca was serving as ''[[chargé d'affaires]]'' in Rome, which the Francoist press described as having "the status of official diplomatic representative" but the Vatican insisted that this was not formal recognition,<ref name="Keogh">{{Cite book|last=Keogh|first=Dermot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3jOLGy127mMC|title=Ireland and the Vatican: The Politics and Diplomacy of Church-state Relations, 1922-1960|date=1995|publisher=Cork University Press|isbn=978-0-902561-96-0|language=en}}</ref>{{rp|130}} though in September 1937, the Vatican had sent a ''chargé'' to [[Burgos]], and in June 1938 full diplomatic recognition was established.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pollard|first=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=enObBQAAQBAJ|title=The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958|date=2014-10-31|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-102657-7|language=en}}</ref>{{rp|263}}

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