Francesco Pio Tamburrino

Francesco Pio Tamburrino (born 6 January 1939 in Oppido Lucano) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino from 2003 to 2014.

He moved with his family as a child in Cesano Maderno, and at 11 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Praglia, where he attended the gymnasium.

On 29 August 1965 he was ordained a priest of the Order of St. Benedict and on 29 November 1989 he was appointed Abbot of the Territorial Abbey of Montevergine.

On 27 April 1999 he was assigned to the Roman Curia as secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

His final appointment, on August 2, 2003 was as Metropolitan Archbishop of Foggia – Bovino (Italy), a post from which he retired on October 11, 2014.