Diocesan profile Roma, Italy
Ordinariato Militare per l'Italia
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 1925
- Priests
- 149
Parishes and churches
2 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Santa Caterina da Siena a MagnanapoliRoma · CathedralView parish
- Beata Vergine Maria del Rosario di Pompei (Caserma Bazzani, Cecchignola)RomaView parish
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The bishop
- Archbishop
- Gian Franco Saba
- Born
- 20 September 1968
- Birthplace
- Olbia
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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.