Antonio Vacca (8 August 1934 – 22 December 2020) was an Italian

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

bishop. Vacca was born in

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

and was ordained to the priesthood in 1957. He served as bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Alghero-Bosa The Diocese of Alghero-Bosa () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church. It is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sassari, on Sardinia, insular Italy. The diocese has an area of 2,012; a total population of 106,300; a Catho ...

, Italy, from 1994 to 2006. He died of

throat cancer Head and neck cancer is a general term encompassing multiple cancers that can develop in the head and neck region. These include cancers of the mouth, tongue, gums and lips ( oral cancer), voice box ( laryngeal), throat ( nasopharyngeal, orophar ...

.https://www.alguer.it/notizie/n.php?id=156156 L´ex vescovo Vacca torna alla Casa del Padre]

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1934 births 2020 deaths Deaths from throat cancer in Italy 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops 21st-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops {{21C-Italy-RC-bishop-stub