Giovanni Saldarini (11 December 1924 – 18 April 2011) was an Italian Cardinal and Archbishop of Turin.

He was educated at St Peter Martyr Seminary in Venegono and the Theological Faculty, Milan.

[2] He was created and proclaimed Cardinal Priest of Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio (deaconry elevated pro hac vice to presbyteral title) in the consistory of 28 June 1991.

[4] Cardinal Saldarini died on 18 April 2011, in Clinica San Giuseppe, Milan, He was buried in the Cathedral of Turin.

Martin Bräuer, Handbuch der Kardinäle: 1846-2012 (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2014).