Antioco Piseddu (17 September 1936 – 8 June 2025) was an Italian
Roman Catholic bishop.
Biography
Piseddu was born in
Senorbì
Senorbì is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about north of Cagliari. It is the main center of Trexenta, located in an area traditionally devoted to the cultivation of cereals. The ...
on 17 September 1936, and was ordained a priest by Archbishop Paolo Botto for the
archdiocese of Cagliari on 29 June 1960.
He was one of the bishops who celebrated the
Tridentine Mass
The Tridentine Mass, also known as the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite or ''usus antiquior'' (), Vetus Ordo or the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) or the Traditional Rite, is the liturgy in the Roman Missal of the Catholic Church codified in ...
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.
He died in Cagliari after a short illness on 8 June 2025, at the age of 88.
References
1936 births
2025 deaths
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
21st-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II
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