Luciano Storero

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.

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. He joined the diplomatic service in 1953 and his early assignments took him to Egypt, Japan, and Ireland. and Apostolic Delegate to Ceylon. He received his episcopal consecration on 1 February 1970 from Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot.

On 24 December 1970, Storero was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic.

He was named Pro-Nuncio to Gabon and to Cameroon and Apostolic Delegate to Equatorial Guinea on 30 June 1973.

He was appointed Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to India on 14 July 1976.

He was named Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela on 2 February 1981.

Pope John Paul II appointed him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Greece on 28 June 1990.

On 15 November 1995, he was appointed the tenth Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland. 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. 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.

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.