Romano Bottegal (28 December 1921 – 19 February 1978) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and professed member from the Trappists. Bottegal joined his order in the 1940s and lived as a hermit in Lebanon. He studied in Belluno and Rome before he was ordained as a priest and following this lived in Rome among his peers; he moved to Lebanon to oversee a new project there but was forced to return to Rome after it failed. But he was later granted permission to return there in order to live as a hermit where he remained in seclusion until his death.