Gian Franco Saba

Gianfranco Saba is from 27 June 2017 the elected Archbishop of Sassari.

Family life

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.

Ministry On 27 June 2017 Pope Francis appointed him as the new Archbishop of Sassari. He was consecrated on 13 September 2017 by bishop of Ozieri Sebastiano Sanguinetti and installed on October 1 2017.

In November 2024, Saba announced Pope Francis' judgment expelling Argentine priest, Fernando María Cornet from clerical state for schism (1983 Code of Canon Law Canons 751 & 1364) due to his “Habemus Antipapam?” publication.

Publications Il dialogo sul sacerdozio di Giovanni Crisostomo: sintesi tra paideia classica e paideia cristiana?, Bologna, Dehoniana Libri, 2012. Scienze religiose e processo euromediterraneo, curatela, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2009. Albino Morera: l'uomo e il pastore nel contesto socio-religioso nella Diocesi di Tempio-Ampurias, curatela con Angelo Setzi, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2004.