Eleuterio Francesco Fortino (April 21, 1938 – September 22, 2010) was an Italian priest of the
Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church ( la, Ecclesia Catholica Italo-Albanica; it, Chiesa Cattolica Italo-Albanese; sq, Kisha Katolike-Bizantine Arbëreshë), Italo-Albanian Byzantine-Catholic Church or Italo-Albanian Church, is one of the 23 E ...
. Fortino, who was
ordained a
Catholic priest on 1962, served as Archimandrite in the
Eparchy of Lungro in
Calabria
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He also served as the Under Secretary of the
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity from 1987 until his death on September 22, 2010.
[ Additionally, he headed the Vatican office charged with improving relations with Orthodox Christianity for ten years.][
He was awarded the "Silver Rose" in 2007 for his promotion of good relations between the Vatican and the Orthodox world.][ He was also the recipient of the Arberia Award in 2009.][
Eleuterio Francesco Fortino died at the Tor Vergata hospital in Rome, Italy, on September 22, 2010, at the age of 72.
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References
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1938 births
2010 deaths
People from the Province of Cosenza
Italian people of Arbëreshë descent
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity