VATICAN (SE): On April 10, the Holy See Press Office two key appointments. In particular, the Vatican secretary of state, Pietro Cardinal Parolin, appointed Dr. Elvira Cajano, as the new president of the Permanent Commission for the Protection of Historical and Artistic Monuments of the Holy See.
Cajano is visiting professor at the Faculty of History and Cultural Heritage of the Church at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
She has held a leadership role at the Superintendence for Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape of Umbria, has also taught Theory of Restoration and Conservation at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University and is the author of numerous publications.
Cajano succeeds Professor Francesco Buranelli, the former director of the Vatican Museums, who, since January 2017, has served as president of the commission.
The Holy See Press Office also announced that Archbishop Gian Franco Saba, who will turn 57-years-old on September 20, has been appointed by Pope Francis as the new leader of the Military Ordinariate of Italy.
The archbishop, who is being transferred from his role as Archbishop of Sassari, has held numerous positions including six years as diocesan assistant to the youth of Catholic Action, and since 2001, served as director of the Diocesan Institute of Religious Sciences. From 2010 to 2015, he served as Rector of the Pontifical Regional Seminary of Sardinia in Cagliari, and for two years, until 2017, as parish priest of Saint Anthony Abbot in Sant’Antonio di Gallura.
In June of that same year, he was appointed Archbishop of Sassari and received episcopal consecration on 13 September 2017.
Archbishop Saba succeeds Archbishop Santo Marcianò, who served as Military Ordinary for Italy for 12 years.
