Retired US Nuncio Archbshop Gabriel Montalvo, dies in Rome at 76
(04 Aug. 2006) : Seventy-six-year old Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, died in Rome on Wednesday 2nd August after a long illness. Archbishop Montalvo was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1930. He was ordained a priest in 1953 and consecrated bishop in 1974.
The Colombian-born prelate served in the Vatican’s Diplomatic Corps for nearly 50 years and only retired from his US post as Apostolic Nuncio in December 2005. He had previously been nuncio to Nicaragua, Honduras, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Yugoslavia, and Belarus. He was also the former president of the Pontifical Ecclesial Academy, the training ground for Vatican diplomacy.
Archbishop Montalvo, who’s most important roles in the U.S. were to maintain relations between the Holy See and the Government of the United States as well as to present possible candidates for Episcopal offices in the U.S., returned to Rome upon his retirement.
The Vatican announced that a wake will be held on Friday for the remains of Archbishop Montalvo at the Chapel of Santa Maria in the Vatican and that the funeral Mass will be celebrated by Cardinal Sodano at the Altar of the Chair, in St. Peter’s Basilica, on Saturday.
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