Type: | Archbishop |
Gian Franco Saba | |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Archbishop of Sassari | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Sassari |
Term: | 27 June 2017 |
Predecessor: | Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei, O.F.M.Conv. |
Ordination: | 23 October 1993 |
Consecration: | 13 September 2017 |
Consecrated By: | Sebastiano Sanguinetti |
Birth Date: | 20 September 1968 |
Birth Place: | Olbia |
Previous Post: | Rector of diocesan Seminary, Sassari Rector of Regional pontifical Seminary of Sardinia |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Gian Franco Saba.svg |
Nationality: | Italian |
Alma Mater: | Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Sardinia Patristic Institute Augustinianum Institut Catholique de Paris |
Motto: | Dilectione amplectere Deum |
Gian Franco Saba | |
Dipstyle: | The Most Reverend |
Offstyle: | Your Excellency |
Relstyle: | Monsignor |
Deathstyle: | none |
Gianfranco Saba is from 27 June 2017[1] the elected Archbishop of Sassari.[2]
Gianfranco Saba was born in Olbia in 1968, and was ordained as a priest in 1993. He continued his theological studies at Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Sardinia, and specialized at Patristic Institute Augustinianum. He also specialized at Institut Catholique de Paris.
He was rector of diocesan Seminary of Sassari and from 2000 to 2015 he was rector of Regional pontifical Seminary of Sardinia.
On 27 June 2017 Pope Francis appointed him as the new Archbishop of Sassari. He will be consecrated on 13 September 2013 by bishop of Ozieri Sebastiano Sanguinetti.