The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word NUNCIO
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result NUNCIO
- Ambassador’s sister ultimately ecstatic, over the moon
- Union rioting about cold papal emissary
- Sister company welcomes one messenger
- Papal ambassador about to be accepted by new union
- Sister vicious at heart going to ambassador
- Sister company employing one messenger
- Contributor to order, one secured by company representative
- One in business follows sister to be a messenger
- Votary, conservative one, meets old pope’s ambassador
- Pope’s man, member of holy order with chinos, oddly
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What does NUNCIO mean?
NUNCIO noun- The ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps.
- (by extension) One who bears a message; a messenger.
- Any member of any Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Galicia (of the Austrian Partition), Duchy of Warsaw, Congress Poland, or Grand Duchy of Posen.