Career
Fortino, who was ordained a Catholic priest on 1962, served as Archimandrite in the Eparchy of Lungro in Calabria. He was awarded the "Silver Rose" in 2007 for his promotion of good relations between the Vatican and the Orthodox world. Eleuterio Francesco Fortino died at the Tor Vergata hospital in Rome, Italy, on September 22, 2010, at the age of 72.