His Excellency Gian Franco Saba
Archbishop of Sassari
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Sassari
In office	27 June 2017
Predecessor	Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei, O.F.M.Conv.
Previous post(s)	Rector of diocesan Seminary, Sassari Rector of Regional pontifical Seminary of Sardinia
Orders
Ordination	23 October 1993
Consecration	13 September 2017 by Sebastiano Sanguinetti
Personal details
Born	(1968-09-20) 20 September 1968 (age 56) Olbia
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Sardinia Patristic Institute Augustinianum Institut Catholique de Paris
Motto	Dilectione amplectere Deum
Coat of arms

Styles of Gian Franco Saba
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

Gianfranco Saba is from 27 June 2017^[1] the elected Archbishop of Sassari.^[2]

Gianfranco Saba was born in Olbia in 1968, and was ordained as a priest in 1993. He continued his theological studies at Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Sardinia, and specialized at Patristic Institute Augustinianum. He also specialized at Institut Catholique de Paris.

He was rector of diocesan Seminary of Sassari and from 2000 to 2015 he was rector of Regional pontifical Seminary of Sardinia.

On 27 June 2017 Pope Francis appointed him as the new Archbishop of Sassari. He was consecrated on 13 September 2017 by bishop of Ozieri Sebastiano Sanguinetti and installed on October 1 2017.

In November 2024, Saba announced Pope Francis' judgment expelling Argentine priest, Fernando María Cornet from clerical state for schism (1983 Code of Canon Law Canons 751 & 1364) due to his “Habemus Antipapam?” publication.^[3]

• Il dialogo sul sacerdozio di Giovanni Crisostomo: sintesi tra paideia classica e paideia cristiana?, Bologna, Dehoniana Libri, 2012, ISBN 978-88-89386-44-6.
• Scienze religiose e processo euromediterraneo, curatela, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2009, ISBN 978-88-498-2850-4.
• Albino Morera: l'uomo e il pastore nel contesto socio-religioso nella Diocesi di Tempio-Ampurias, curatela con Angelo Setzi, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2004, ISBN 88-498-0646-9.

• Archbishop Gian Franco Saba Catholic-Hierarchy.org
• Official website of the Archdiocese of Sassari (in Italian)