Donato Squicciarini (24 April 1927 – 5 March 2006) was an Italian Catholic archbishop who acted as Nuncio to Austria from 1989 to 2002.Catholic Hierarchy.com
Squicciarini was born in Altamura, Apulia, Kingdom of Italy, on 24 April 1927 under the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. He was ordained priest 12 April 1952, and ordained bishop and titular Archbishop of Tiburnia 26 Nov 1978. He was Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Gabon, Cameroun, and Equatorial Guinea from 1981 till 1989, and Apostolic Nuncio to Austria from 1 July 1989 until retirement on 8 October 2002.
He was involved in a controversy about an Order of Pius IX conferred on Kurt Waldheim.The New York Times: August 6, 1994 Donato Squicciarini received the Austrian Decoration of Honor in 2000. He died in Rome on 5 March 2006. Squicciarini's funeral was held at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on 7 March 2006. The Funeral Mass was presided over by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, then the Vatican Secretary of State, who delivered the homily.
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