Donato Squicciarini

Donato Squicciarini (24 April 1927 - 5 March 2006) was an Italian Catholic archbishop who acted as Nuncio to Austria from 1989 to 2002.^[1]

Squicciarini was born at Altamura, Apulia on 24 April 1927. He was ordained priest 12 April 1952, and was appointed Titular Archbishop of Tiburnia and Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi on 26 November 1978. Squicciarini was ordained bishop and titular Archbishop of Tiburnia 26 Nov 1978, was Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Gabon, Cameroun, and Equatorial Guinea from 1981 till 1989, and Apostolic Nuncio to Austria from 1 July 1989 till retirement on 8 Oct 2002.

He was notable during a controversy that involved an Order of Pius IX being given to Kurt Waldheim.^[2] Donato Squicciarini received the "Austrian Decoration of Honor" in 2000.

Squicciarini died in Rome on 5 March 2006.

References

1. ^ Catholic Hierarchy.com
2. ^ The New York Times: August 6, 1994

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Name	Squicciarini, Donato
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Date of birth	24 April 1927
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Date of death	5 March 2006
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