Oriano Quilici

Oriano Quilici (29 November 1929 – 2 November 1998) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

Biography Oriano Quilici was born on 29 November 1929 in the San Pietro a Vico quarter of Lucca, Italy. He was ordained a priest on 8 December 1954.

His academic credentials included a diploma in theology and philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University and a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Lateran University. and entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 1 August 1959. He was consecrated a bishop on 7 December.

On 26 June 1981, Pope John Paul II appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Guatemala, on 11 July 1990 to Venezuela, and on 8 July 1997 to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. In Guatemala in 1983, he appealed without success to halt several executions just days before Pope John Paul's arrival there.

He died in university hospital in Bern, Switzerland, on 2 November 1998.