Giovanni Roncari

Giovanni Roncari (born 19 August 1949) is an Italian ordinary of the Catholic Church and a member of the Capuchin order. He is the current Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello.[1]

His Excellency, The Most Reverend

Giovanni Roncari, O.F.M. Cap.
Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello
Roncari's coat of arms
DiocesePitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello
Appointed1 October 2015
Installed29 November 2015
PredecessorGuglielmo Borghetti
Personal details
Born (1949-08-19) 19 August 1949
Verona, Veneto, Italy
NationalityItalian
DenominationRoman Catholic
Alma materPontifical Gregorian University
MottoIn Caritate et Laetitia
transl. In Love and Joy

Biography
Ordination history of
Giovanni Roncari
History
Priestly ordination
Date22 March 1975
PlaceViterbo, Lazio, Italy
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecratorGiuseppe Betori
Co-consecratorsMario Meini,
Guglielmo Borghetti
Date21 November 2015
PlaceFlorence Cathedral, Florence

Roncari was born in Verona in Veneto, Italy on 19 August 1949. He moved with his family to Florence and entered the seminary of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, beginning his novitiate in 1966. He made his first religious profession on 15 July 1966.[1]

Priestly ministry

After graduating from a liceo classico, he obtained a baccalaureate in theology. He then studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1976 to 1979, where he received a licentiate in Church history.[1][2]

He professed his solemn vows in the Capuchin Province of Tuscany on 20 August 1972 and was ordained a priest on 22 March 1975 in Viterbo.[1]

As a priest, he served as chaplain to Careggi University Hospital in Florence from 1975 to 1976 and assistant to young university students in the Convent of Pisa from 1979 to 1980. He also was vice director of theologians, assistant of the Secular Franciscan Order and of the Franciscan Youth of Montughi (Florence), vicar of the parish of St. Francis and St. Clare in Montughi from 1984 to 1988, and professor of church history at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy starting in 1988.[1]

Roncari was nominated as the pastor of the parish of St. Francis and St. Clare in Montughi in 1992. From 1998 to 2005, he was a delegate of the Archdiocese of Florence for the apostolate of the laity and was an ecclesiastical assistant of the diocesan council for lay associations. He was a member of the college of consultors in Florence from 2002 to 2015 and was Episcopal Vicar for the clergy of Florence.[1][3]

Episcopal ministry

On 1 October 2015, Pope Francis appointed Roncari the Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello, succeeding Guglielmo Borghetti. On 21 November 2015, he was consecrated a bishop in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence by Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, with Bishops Mario Meini and Guglielmo Borghetti as co-consecrators (both of whom were his immediate predecessors as Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello). He took as his episcopal motto "In Caritate et Laetitia," which translates from Latin as "In Love and Joy." On 29 November, he took possession of the diocese.[1]

References
  1. "Rinunce e nomine, 01.10.2015" [Renunciations and Appointments 01.10.2015] (in Italian). Vatican Press. 10 January 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. "Br. Giovanni Roncari OFMCap Appointed Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbatello". Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. 4 October 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  3. "Sua Ecc.za Rev.ma Mons. Giovanni Roncari versione testuale". Diocese of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello (in Italian). Retrieved 5 December 2017.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Guglielmo Borghetti		 Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello
2015–present		 Incumbent
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