Francisco-Javier Lozano Sebastián

Francisco-Javier Lozano Sebastián (born 28 November 1943) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who has spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He has been an archbishop since 1994 and held the title of Apostolic Nuncio to several countries until his resignation in 2015.

Biography He was born to a farming family in Villaverde de Íscar on 28 November 1943. He studied at the seminary in Seville and at the Pontifical University of Salamanca. He earned his licentiate in theology in 1966 from the Pontifical Gregorian University. during the Second Congo War, where in 2000 he criticized the shelling of Kisangani as a "tragic and unjustified" targeting of the Christian population.

He returned to Rome in 2001 and worked in the Section for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State

John Paul made him Nuncio to Croatia on 4 August 2003, and he received his next posting from Pope Benedict XVI as Nuncio to both Romania and Moldova on 10 December 2007.

Pope Francis accepted his resignation as Nuncio on 20 July 2015.