He told the visiting papal delegate: "You destroyed your religion.

On July 9, 2010, Archbishop Velasio De Paolis was appointed as the papal delegate.

His office of papal delegate came to an end in 1253.

Another national council, presided over by Cardinal Boso (d. 1181), also papal delegate, settled questions of discipline and established diocesan rights and limits.

In the capacity of papal delegate, on 19 March 1519, he issued the Statuta, which were to be observed by all the Austin Canons.

However, since the papal delegate was not allowed to have any contact with the clergy, Pope Pius IX recalled his nuncio in 1863.

Although he was not technically a papal nuncio, in 1459 Landus became one of the first papal delegates to Poland.

The papal delegate opened the Council in Basel on July 23, 1431 without a single bishop present.

He met the papal delegates who had to provide quarters for the members of the council.

In 1244 the papal delegates advised a union of the order with the Cistercians as a means of ending the disputes.