Gianfranco Saba is from 27 June 2017[1] the elected Archbishop of Sassari.

[2] Gianfranco Saba was born in Olbia in 1968, and was ordained as a priest in 1993.

On 27 June 2017 Pope Francis appointed him as the new Archbishop of Sassari.

He was consecrated on 13 September 2017 by bishop of Ozieri Sebastiano Sanguinetti and installed on October 1 2017.

In November 2024, Saba announced Pope Francis' judgment expelling Argentine priest, Fernando María Cornet from clerical state for schism (1983 Code of Canon Law Canons 751 & 1364) due to his “Habemus Antipapam?” publication.