Diocese of Tempio–Ampurias, Italy 🇮🇹

Continent: West Europe

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Tempio–Ampurias / Templen(sis)–Ampurien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Sassari

Neighbouring Dioceses: Sassari (↙), Ajaccio (↑), Nuoro (↘), Ozieri (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: S. Simplicio Vescovo e Martire, Saint Anthony the Great

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1986.09.30: Established as Diocese of Tempio–Ampurias / Templen(sis)–Ampurien(sis) (Latin) (from the suppressed Diocese of Ampurias and Diocese of Civita–Tempio and became suffragan of Sassari)

Contact Info

Address: Via Episcopio 7, 07029 Tempio Pausania, Italy

Phone: 079 631488

Present Prelates

Bishop (2023.07.11 – ...):

Bishop Roberto Fornaciari, O.S.B. Cam. (62)

Monsignors (4)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Tempio–Ampurias (Roman Rite)

Bishop Roberto Fornaciari, O.S.B. Cam. (62)
(2023.07.11 – ...)

Bishop of Tempio–Ampurias (Italy)

Camminare Edificare Confessare

Born:	1963.12.23 (Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	2001.04.25
Consecrated Bishop:	2023.09.16

Bishop of Tempio–Ampurias (Italy) (2023.07.11 – ...)

Bishop Sebastiano Sanguinetti (81)
(2006.04.22 – 2023.07.11)

Bishop emeritus of Tempio–Ampurias (Italy)

In lætitia et caritate

Born:	1945.03.29 (Lula, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1970.08.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1997.05.17

Priest of Nuoro (Italy) (1970.08.02 – 1997.03.27)

Chaplain of His Holiness (1994.12.02 – 1997.03.27)

Bishop of Ozieri (Italy) (1997.03.27 – 2006.04.22)

Bishop of Tempio–Ampurias (Italy) (2006.04.22 – 2023.07.11)

Apostolic Administrator of Ozieri (Italy) (2012.12.10 – 2015.07.18)

Bishop Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei, O.F.M. Conv. (84) (later Archbishop)
(1993.02.08 – 2004.09.14)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Sassari (Italy)

In perfecta lætitia servire

Born:	1942.02.21 (Mantova, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1966.12.18
Consecrated Bishop:	1993.03.28

Bishop of Tempio–Ampurias (Italy) (1993.02.08 – 2004.09.14)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Sassari (Italy) (2004.09.14 – 2017.06.27)

Bishop Pietro Meloni (90)
(1986.09.30 – 1992.04.16)

Bishop emeritus of Nuoro (Italy)

Gaudium et spes

Born:	1935.08.31 (Sassari, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1968.06.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1983.09.10

Priest of Sassari (Italy) (1968.06.28 – 1983.06.09)

Bishop of Ampurias (Italy) (1983.06.09 – 1986.09.30)

Bishop of Civita–Tempio (Italy) (1983.06.09 – 1986.09.30)

Bishop of Tempio–Ampurias (Italy) (1986.09.30 – 1992.04.16)

Bishop of Nuoro (Italy) (1992.04.16 – 2011.04.21)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cattedrale di San Pietro Apostolo, Tempio Pausania, Sassari, Sardegna
Co-Cathedral: Concattedrale di Sant’Antonio Abate, Castelsardo, Sassari, Sardegna
Former Cathedral, Minor Basilica: Basilica di San Simplicio, Olbia, Sassari, Sardegna
Minor Basilica: Basilica della Natività della Beata Vergine Maria, Luogosanto, Sassari, Sardegna
Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Churches by City (56)

Sassari (↙), Ajaccio (↑), Nuoro (↘), Ozieri (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 2,695 km²

Population: 156,800 Catholics (98.3% of 159,531 total)

Pastoral Centres: 52 parishes

Personnel: 75 priests (66 diocesan, 9 religious), 12 deacons, 63 religious (9 brothers, 54 sisters), 2 seminarians