Antioco Piseddu

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| title = Bishop Emeritus of Lanusei

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| archdiocese = Cagliari

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| diocese = Lanusei

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| appointed = 29 September 1981

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| term_end = 31 January 2014

| predecessor = Salvatore Delogu

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| successor = Antonio Mura

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| ordination = 29 June 1960

| ordained_by = Paolo Botto

| consecration = 8 November 1981

| consecrated_by = Sebastiano Baggio

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1936|09|16}}

| birth_place = Senorbì, Italy

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| motto = In simplicate cordis

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Antioco Piseddu (17 September 1936 – 8 June 2025) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop.

Biography

Piseddu was born in Senorbì on 17 September 1936, and was ordained a priest by Archbishop Paolo Botto for the archdiocese of Cagliari on 29 June 1960.{{Cite web |title=Bishop Antioco Piseddu [Catholic-Hierarchy] |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpiseddu.html |access-date=2025-06-09 |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org}}{{Cite web |last=Michael |first=Derick |date=2025-06-08 |title=Italy: Bishop Antioco Piseddu (88) |url=https://lifememory.com/full-obituaries/italy-bishop-antioco-piseddu-88/ |access-date=2025-06-09 |website=LifeMemory |language=en}}

He was one of the bishops who celebrated the Tridentine Mass after the liturgical reform: on Sunday, 13 September 2021, a prelatic Mass and Sunday, 20 June 2021, a pontifical Mass at the faldistorium, both preceded by the administration of the sacrament of confirmation, in the personal parish of Santa Croce in Cagliari.{{Cite book |last=Loddo |first=Tonino |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Studi_in_onore_di_mons_Antioco_Piseddu/YqJGAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Antioco+Piseddu&dq=Antioco+Piseddu&printsec=frontcover |title=Studi in onore di mons. Antioco Piseddu |date=2002 |publisher=Zonza |isbn=978-88-8470-079-7 |language=it}}{{Cite book |last=Nonnis |first=Giuseppe Luigi |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cagliari/GLGr7SjQ8qgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Antioco+Piseddu&pg=PA211&printsec=frontcover |title=Cagliari: passeggiate semiserie : Marina |date=2007 |publisher=La Riflessione |isbn=978-88-6211-041-9 |language=it}}

He died in Cagliari after a short illness on 8 June 2025, at the age of 88.{{Cite web |date=2025-06-08 |title=Chiesa Sarda in lutto per la scomparsa di mons Piseddu |url=https://www.chiesadicagliari.it/2025/06/08/chiesa-sarda-in-lutto-per-la-scomparsa-di-mons-piseddu/ |access-date=2025-06-09 |website=Chiesa di Cagliari |language=it-IT}}{{Cite web |last=Secci |first=Roberto |date=2025-06-08 |title=Lanusei, Ogliastra church in mourning: the bishop emeritus Antioco Piseddu has died |url=https://www.unionesarda.it/en/sardinia/lanusei-ogliastra-church-in-mourning-the-bishop-emeritus-antioco-piseddu-has-died-ji3m749b |access-date=2025-06-09 |website=L'Unione Sarda English |language=en}}

References

Category:1936 births

Category:2025 deaths

Category:20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops

Category:21st-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops

Category:Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II