Luciano Storero
Italian prelate
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Luciano Storero (26 September 1926 – 1 October 2000) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.[1]
| Styles of Luciano Storero | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
Biography
Luciano Storero was born in Pinasca, Italy, on 26 September 1926. He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1949.
To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1951.[2] He joined the diplomatic service in 1953[3] and his early assignments took him to Egypt, Japan, and Ireland.[4]
On 25 November 1969, Pope Paul VI appointed him Titular Archbishop of Tigimma[5] and Apostolic Delegate to Ceylon.[6] He received his episcopal consecration on 1 February 1970 from Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot.[7]
On 24 December 1970, Storero was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic.[8][a]
He was named Pro-Nuncio to Gabon and to Cameroon and Apostolic Delegate to Equatorial Guinea on 30 June 1973.[9]
He was appointed Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to India on 14 July 1976.[10]
He was named Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela on 2 February 1981.[11]
Pope John Paul II appointed him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Greece on 28 June 1990.[12]
On 15 November 1995, he was appointed the tenth Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.[13] After the Irish bishops devised a mandatory reporting policy in 1996 that bishops could adopt for use in their diocese, Storero warned them in 1997 that Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy opposed implementing a policy that included mandatory reporting to civil authorities.[14][15][b] In 1999, he was sued in civil court along with Brendan Comiskey, Bishop of Ferns, by a man who said he had been sexually abused by a priest and that the nunciature had taken no action when informed in the mid-1980s.[16]
After fighting cancer for years, Storero arranged to retire before turning 75. He was planning his return to his native village when he died in a Dublin hospital on 1 October 2000 while still in his post.[4]
Notes
- The Nuncio to the Dominican Republic is also responsible for Puerto Rico.
- Vatican norms for cases of clergy accused of sexual abuse were overhauled in 2001 and became the responsibility of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
