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Diocesan profile Roma, Italy

Ordinariato Militare per l'Italia

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.

On the map

Esri
Roma, Italy, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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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.

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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.