Giovanni Nerbini

Giovanni Nerbini (born 2 June 1954) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who became Bishop of Prato in 2019.

Giovanni Nerbini was born on 2 June 1954 in Figline Valdarno, Province of Florence.

Appointed by Bishop Mario Meini, he was vicar general of the diocese from 2015 to 2018.

[2] He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, Archbishop of Florence, on 30 June[1] and was installed in Prato on 7 September.

In December 2019, Nerbini notified civil authorities of charges of sexual abuse of two brothers—one less than 14 years old[3]—on the part nine priests and brothers of the Disciples of the Annunciation,[4] an order founded in Prato in 2010 and suppressed by the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life on 24 December 2019.