Luciano Storero
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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.{{Cite web|title=Bishops who are not Ordinaries: ST…|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/hierarchy/data/bishops-ST.htm#7095|website=www.gcatholic.org|access-date=2020-05-30}}
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.{{cite web|publisher=Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy|language =it|access-date = 10 January 2020| title = Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Ex-alunni 1950 – 1999 |url = https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdeccles/documents/1950-1999.htm }} He joined the diplomatic service in 1953{{cite news | newspaper = The Irish Times | url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/papal-nuncio-confirms-he-will-be-retiring-shortly-1.1103385 | access-date = 10 January 2020 | title = Papal Nuncio confirms he will be retiring shortly | date = 16 September 2000 | first = Patsy | last = McGarry }} and his early assignments took him to Egypt, Japan, and Ireland.
On 25 November 1969, Pope Paul VI appointed him Titular Archbishop of Tigimma{{cite book | access-date = 10 January 2020 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-62-1970-ocr.pdf | date= 1970 | volume = LXII | page = 9 }} and Apostolic Delegate to Ceylon.{{cite book | access-date = 10 January 2020 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-61-1969-ocr.pdf | date= 1969 | volume = LXI | page = 756 }} He received his episcopal consecration on 1 February 1970 from Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot.{{Cite web|title=Archbishop Luciano Storero [Catholic-Hierarchy]|url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bstorero.html|website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org|access-date=2020-05-30}}
On 24 December 1970, Storero was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic.{{cite book | access-date = 10 January 2020 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-63-1971-ocr.pdf | date= 1971 | volume = LXIII | page = 93 }}{{efn|The Nuncio to the Dominican Republic is also responsible for Puerto Rico.}}
He was named Pro-Nuncio to Gabon and to Cameroon and Apostolic Delegate to Equatorial Guinea on 30 June 1973.{{cite book | access-date = 10 January 2020 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-65-1973-ocr.pdf | date= 1973 | volume = LXV | page = 414 }}
He was appointed Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to India on 14 July 1976.{{cite book | access-date = 10 January 2020 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-68-1976-ocr.pdf | date= 1976 | volume = LXVIII| page = 539 }}
He was named Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela on 2 February 1981.{{cite book | access-date = 10 January 2020 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-73-1981-ocr.pdf | date= 1981| volume = LXXIII | page = 215 }}
Pope John Paul II appointed him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Greece on 28 June 1990.{{cite book | access-date = 10 January 2020 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-82-1990-ocr.pdf | date= 1990| volume = LXXXII | page = 846 }}
On 15 November 1995, he was appointed the tenth Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.{{cite book | access-date = 10 January 2020 | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-87-1995-ocr.pdf | date= 1995 | volume = LXXXVII | page = 1167 }} 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.{{cite news | last=Goodstein |first= Laurie Rachel | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/world/europe/19vatican.html | title = Vatican Warned Bishops Not to Report Child Abuse | work = New York Times | date= 18 January 2011 | access-date = 18 January 2011 }}{{cite news | work = NPR | access-date = 10 January 2020 |date= 18 January 2011| url = https://www.npr.org/2011/01/18/133015611/vatican-warned-irish-bishops-not-to-report-abuse | title= Vatican Warned Irish Bishops Not To Report Abuse }}{{efn|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.}} 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.{{cite news | newspaper= The Irish Times | access-date = 10 January 2020 | date= 7 December 1999 | url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/papal-nuncio-sued-over-abuse-claim-1.258361 | title= Papal Nuncio sued over abuse claim }}
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.{{cite news | newspaper= The Irish Times | access-date = 10 January 2020 | url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/the-papal-nuncio-dies-in-hospital-after-illness-1.1104610 | title = The Papal Nuncio dies in hospital after illness | date = 2 October 2000 }}
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Category:20th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops
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Category:Apostolic nuncios to Venezuela
Category:Apostolic nuncios to the Dominican Republic
Category:Apostolic nuncios to Gabon
Category:Apostolic nuncios to India
Category:Apostolic nuncios to Cameroon
Category:Apostolic nuncios to Equatorial Guinea
Category:Apostolic nuncios to Sri Lanka
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