Ordinariato Militare per l'Italia
Latin Church · Roma, Italy
The Military Ordinariate of Italy is a personal ecclesiastical jurisdiction providing pastoral care to members of the Italian Armed Forces, established as a military vicariate in 1925 and raised to a military ordinariate in 1986. Archbishop Gian Franco Saba was appointed Military Ordinary in April 2025.
The see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1925
- Patron
- san Juan XXIII
The see in figures
- Priests
- 149
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Gian Franco Saba
- Born
- 20 September 1968
- Birthplace
- Olbia
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Chiesa di Santa Caterina da Siena a Magnanapoli, Rome stands in Roma, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Catholics serving in the Italian Armed Forces, together with their families, receive pastoral care from the Military Ordinariate in Italy (Italian: Ordinariato Militare in Italia), a Latin Church military ordinariate of the Catholic Church in Italy that is immediately exempt to the Holy See.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.