[3] Msgr Pintor had previously served as director of the CEI's office for the pastoral outreach in health care, during the presidency of Cardinal Ruini.

In the diocese he was assistant pastor of the Cathedral of Oristano (his parish of origin) and diocesan assistant of young men of Catholic Action, and subsequently he served as spiritual director of the seminary Archbishop of Oristano.

From 1970 to 1995 he collaborated with the National Catechetical Office of the CEI for the preparation of new catechisms and for the formation of catechists.

This has been as a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers.

[5] On 8 December of the same year he received the episcopal consecration by the then apostolic nuncio in Italy Paolo Romeo.