Gabriel Montalvo Higuera (27 January 1930 – 2 August 2006)[1] was a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See for fifty years, with the title of archbishop and the rank of nuncio from 1974.
[3] He served at various papal embassies in Bolivia, Argentina and El Salvador before being assigned to the Vatican's Secretariat of State to work on Eastern-bloc relations.
[2] The following December, after Sandanista rebels kidnapped a number of hostages, Montalvo was one of those who accompanied the kidnappers' flight to Havana in order to insure their safety.
[10] In 2000 Montalvo promptly forwarded to the Secretariat a letter that reported rumors of inappropriate behavior with seminarians on the part of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
"[8][11] On 6 December 2005, Paul Bootkoski, then Bishop of Metuchen, New Jersey, informed Montalvo of three complaints regarding inappropriate sexual behavior by McCarrick, first by phone, and then in writing.