The
Embassy of the United States of America to the Holy See (or
Embassy Vatican for short) is the
diplomatic mission of
United States of America to the
Holy See, a term referring to the central government and universal reach of the
Roman Catholic Church. The current embassy moved to new headquarters in September 2015 in a separate building on the same compound as the United States Embassy Rome. The embassy was previously located on
Aventine Hill in the Villa Domiziana in
Rome,
Italy, which was built as a private residence in 1953. In 1994, the U.S. government acquired the property as the new
chancery for embassy. On August 1, 2013,
Ken Hackett was confirmed by the
U.S. Senate as the new Ambassador to the Holy See.