Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital

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]

His Excellency
Domingos Fezas Vital
GOC GCIH ComIH
Portuguese Ambassador to the Holy See & Portuguese Ambassador to the Sovereign Order of Malta
Assumed office
16 December 2021
PresidentMarcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Preceded byAntónio de Almeida Lima
Portuguese Ambassador to the United States
In office
10 September 2015 – 16 December 2021
PresidentAníbal Cavaco Silva
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Prime MinisterPedro Passos Coelho
António Costa
Preceded byNuno Brito
Succeeded byFrancisco António Duarte Lopes
Portuguese Ambassador to The Bahamas
Assumed office
13 March 2017
PresidentMarcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Permanent Representative of Portugal to the European Union
In office
19 March 2012 – 10 September 2015
PresidentAníbal Cavaco Silva
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Prime MinisterPedro Passos Coelho
António Costa
Personal details
Born(1958-09-27)27 September 1958
Luanda, Portuguese Angola
SpouseIsabel Maria Rito de Oliveira Afonso de Fezas Vital
Children2

Career

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]

Honours

National honours

Foreign honours

Publications
  • Why the U.S. and Europe need each other, now more than ever, with Kirsti Kauppi, The Dallas Morning News, 2019[9]

References
  1. Diário da República
  2. "Ordem de Malta". Portal Diplomático (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  3. "Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital" (PDF). Assembleia da República. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  4. "Novo embaixador de Portugal apresentou credenciais – L'Osservatore Romano". www.osservatoreromano.va (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  5. "Vaticano: Embaixador de Portugal junto da Santa Sé apresenta cartas credenciais ao Papa Francisco". Agência ECCLESIA (in European Portuguese). 5 March 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  6. "Decreto do Presidente da República n.º 103/2021, de 16 de dezembro". dre.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  7. "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Nacionais". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  8. "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Estrangeiras". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  9. "Why the U.S. and Europe need each other, now more than ever". dallasnews.com. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
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