{"id":449449,"date":"2025-03-07T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelitaniscalzi.com\/?p=449449"},"modified":"2025-03-14T01:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T00:01:23","slug":"italy-father-saverio-cannistra-named-archbishop-metropolitan-of-pisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelitaniscalzi.com\/en\/2025\/03\/07\/italy-father-saverio-cannistra-named-archbishop-metropolitan-of-pisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy: Father Saverio Cannistra named Archbishop Metropolitan of Pisa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Friday, 6th<\/sup> February, the Holy Father named as Metropolitan Archbishop of Pisa Father Saverio Cannistra, OCD, former Prepositor General of Discalced Carmelites, and currently Vicar of the parish of Saint Pancras in Rome.<\/p>\n

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Msgr. Saverio Cannistra, OCD, was born in Catanzaro on 3rd<\/sup> October 1958. After obtaining a licence in Romance philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore<\/em> of Pisa, he worked as an editor at a publishing house. On 17th<\/sup> September, 1985, he entered the novitiate of the Discalced Carmelites of the Italian Province of Tuscany. He made his perpetual profession on 14th<\/sup> September, 1990, and was ordained as a priest on 24th<\/sup> October, 1992.<\/p>\n

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Among the positions he has occupied and studies he has pursued, we can list the following: Doctorate in Dogmatic Theology at the Gregorian Pontifical University of Rome (1998); lecturer in Trinitarian Theology at the Pontifical Theology Faculty and Institute of Spirituality \u201cTeresianum\u201d in Rome (1995-2003); Professor of Christology and Theological Anthropology at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy in Florence (2003-2009). In 2007, he was elected member of the Council of the Presidency of the Italian Theological Association.<\/p>\n

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In his Province of Tuscany, he has been a provincial counsellor (1996-2002), master of postulants and students (1999-2008) and provincial (2008). He was Prepositor General of the Order of Discalced Carmelites from 2009 to 2021. He is a member of the presbyteral council of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Florence, and Vicar of the Parish of Saint Pancras in Rome.<\/p>\n