Monsignor Bernardino Piñera Carvallo (22 September 1915 – 21 June 2020) was a Chilean bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
[1] Born in Paris, France, Piñera was ordained a priest on 5 April 1947.
On 11 February 1958, Pope Pius XII appointed Piñera Carvallo auxiliary bishop of Talca.
[2] On 21 August 2019, Chile's nuncio Ivo Scapolo announced that the Vatican had launched an investigation into claims that Piñera sexually abused at least one child 50 years earlier.
Although the government initially denied the disease to be the cause of death, the certificate issued by the Civil Registry and Identification Service indicates "pneumonia due to COVID-19" as the cause.