Luigi Antonio Cantafora

Luigi Antonio Cantafora (10 April 1943 – 19 July 2025) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lamezia Terme from 2004 to 2019.

Biography Cantafora was born in Scandale (province of Crotone) in 1943. He studied at the Minor Seminary in Crotone and the regional Major Seminary in Catanzaro. After ordination in 1969 he served as chancellor of the Curia in Crotona (1970–1973), priest of SS. Veneranda and Anastasia in Crotone, and then Rector of S. Giuseppe (1970–1975). He was episcopal vicar for pastoral affairs (1975), and an honorary Canon of the Cathedral of Crotone (1989). He was appointed a member of the diocesan College of Consultors (1994–1999), and then Administrator of the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Crotone (from 2001). He was Vicar Forane for the city of Crotone.

Cantafora died in Crotone, Calabria on 19 July 2025, at the age of 82.