Fausto Tardelli

Fausto Tardelli (born 5 January 1951) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of Pistoia since 2014 and bishop of Pescia as well since 2023. He was bishop of San Miniato from 2004 to 2014.

Biography Fausto Tardelli was born in Lucca on 5 January 1951 in Lucca. He entered the diocesan seminary of the Archdiocese of Lucca in 1964, and after completing all his studies there was ordained a priest of that archdiocese on 29 June 1974.

Starting in 1978 he was Professor of Moral Theology at the seminary in Lucca and at the Interdiocesan Studio of Camaiore (part of the Theological Faculty of Central Italy). He was Scout ecclesiastical assistant in Lucca beginning in 1979; assistant of the Catholic Action Student Movement from 1978 to 1992; vice chancellor and then chancellor of the curia from 1983 to 1993; diocesan assistant of Catholic Action from 1984 to 1987; assistant to the Italian Catholic Federation of University Students until 1992; parish priest at the parish of San Concordio in Moriano, then in Massarosa, and finally in San Pietro Somaldi and San Leonardo in Lucca from 1986 to 2001. He was later appointed vicar general. He received his episcopal consecration in Lucca on 2 May and he was installed in his new diocese on 8 December.

His installation in Pescia took place on 14 January 2024.

In the Italian Episcopal Conference he is Secretary of the Commission for the Laity. He is also secretary of the Tuscan Episcopal Conference.