Donato Squicciarini was an Italian Catholic archbishop who acted as Nuncio

Nuncio

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 to Austria

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 from 1989 to 2002.

Squicciarini was born at Altamura

Altamura

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, Apulia

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 on 24 April 1927. He was ordained priest 12 April 1952, and was appointed Titular Archbishop of Tiburnia and Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi

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 on 26 November 1978. Squicciarini was ordained bishop and titular Archbishop of Tiburnia 26 Nov 1978, was Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Gabon

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, Cameroun

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, and Equatorial Guinea

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 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

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 being given to Kurt Waldheim

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. Donato Squicciarini received the "Austrian Decoration of Honor" in 2000.

Squicciarini died in Rome on 5 March 2006.