Giovanni Roncari

Giovanni Roncari (born 19 August 1949) is an Italian ordinary of the Catholic Church and a member of the Capuchin order. He is the current Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello.

Priestly ministry After graduating from a liceo classico, he obtained a baccalaureate in theology. He then studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1976 to 1979, where he received a licentiate in Church history.

He professed his solemn vows in the Capuchin Province of Tuscany on 20 August 1972 and was ordained a priest on 22 March 1975 in Viterbo.

Episcopal ministry On 1 October 2015, Pope Francis appointed Roncari the Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello, succeeding Guglielmo Borghetti. On 21 November 2015, he was consecrated a bishop in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence by Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, with Bishops Mario Meini and Guglielmo Borghetti as co-consecrators (both of whom were his immediate predecessors as Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello). He took as his episcopal motto "," which translates from Latin as "In Love and Joy." On 29 November, he took possession of the diocese.