Giuseppe Baturi

Giuseppe Baturi (born 21 March 1964) is an Italian Catholic prelate who has served Archbishop of Cagliari since 2020 and as secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Italy since 2022.

He was also the Episcopal Vicar for Economic Affairs, a member of the Presbyteral Council, General Procurator of the Archbishop, vice-president of the Catanese Opera for Worship and Religion, a member of the boards of directors of the Pious Work of Poor Clerics, of the Pious San Benedetto Educational Institute, and of the Regina Pacis Committee Association of Belpasso, and a member of the steering committee of the Michelangelo Virgilito Foundation of Palermo.

[2] He received his episcopal consecration in the Shrine of Our Lady of Bonaria on 5 January 2020 from Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Archbishop of Perugia.

[6] He received the pallium, the symbol of his status as a metropolitan, on 20 September from Archbishop Emil Paul Tscherrig, apostolic nuncio to Italy, in front of the cathedral on the Piazza Palazzo.

[4] In March 2022 he met with the head of the Ukrainian community in Cagliari[8] and in April 2022, he visited Ukraine to express his solidarity with his former schoolmate, Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki of Lviv.