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. 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. The ambassador to Denmark assumed the diplomatic and consular affairs until 2004, when Spain created a resident embassy in the Vilnius.
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. 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. +NameTermRankEduardo García Comin1929–1932MinisterBunaventura Caro y del Arroyo1932MinisterJesús de Encío y Cortés1936Chargé d'affairesCeferino Palencia y Álvarez-Tubau1936–1939Chargé d'affairesLuis de Olivares y Bruguera1939–1940Chargé d'affaires
List of ambassadors to Lithuania (1991–present) Resident in Copenhagen, Denmark until 2004. Name Term Rank1 Carlos Fernández-Longoria y Pavía 1991–1993 Ambassador2 Jesús Ezquerra Calvo 1993–1994 Ambassador3 Antonio de Oyarzábal Marchesi 1995–1996 Ambassador4 1997–2001 Ambassador5 José María Pons Irazazábal 2001–2004 Ambassador6 Fidel López Álvarez 2004–2007 Ambassador7 José Luis Solano Gadea 2007–2011 Ambassador8 2011–2014 Ambassador9 Emilio Fernández-Castaño y Díaz-Caneja 2014–2018 Ambassador10 José María Robles Fraga 2018–2022 Ambassador11 2022–2025 Ambassador12 2025–present Ambassador
See also Lithuania–Spain relations
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