Antonio Franco (born 24 March 1937 in Puglianello, Italy) is an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and Vatican diplomat.

[5] From 1993 to 1997, while Nuncio to Ukraine, he also served there as head of the new Apostolic Administration of Zakarpattia of Latini (later the Diocese of Mukacheve).

[6] On 21 January 2006, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Israel and Cyprus as well as Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine,[7] In April 2007, Franco threatened to boycott a Holocaust memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem because of the way the museum described Pope Pius XII's behavior toward the Jews during World War II.

Franco relented saying he only meant to draw attention to the question and calling the dispute "only diplomacy".

[9] On 22 February 2013, he succeeded Archbishop Giuseppe De Andrea as the Assessor of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.