Archbishop Roberto Carboni

Archbishop Roberto Carboni, O.M.I. Conv., was born on 12 October 1958 in Scano Montiferro, province of Oristano and diocese of Alghero-Bosa. He entered the Seraphic Seminary of the Friars Minor Conventual of Sassari, and subsequently transferred to the Collegio San Francesco of Oristano, where he completed his classical high school studies. In 1977 he began his noviciate in the Convent of the Basilica of the Saint in Padua, where he also studied philosophy at the Sant’Antonio Dottore Seminary, while he carried out his studies in theology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Saint Bonaventure-Seraphicum in Rome. He gave his perpetual profession on 27 June 1982. He was ordained a priest on 29 September 1984. After priestly ordination he continued his studies in Rome, obtaining a licentiate in psychology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1986. Since 1989 he has been registered as a psychologist and psychotherapist in Sardinia. Following his collaboration with the magazine Fraternità, of which he was editor-in-chief, he became a freelance journalist, and has been registered as a journalist in Sardinia since 1997. He has held the following offices: from 1985 to 1992 he was spiritual director at the Centre for Youth and Vocation Ministry at the Sacro Convento in Assisi; from 1991 to 1993 he was professor of psychology at the Theological Institute of Assisi; from 1993 to 1994 deputy parish priest of San Francesco di Assisi in Cagliari; from 1994 to 1999 rector of the Franciscan Postulancy at the Collegio San Francesco in Oristano; from 1994 to 2001 secretary and provincial vicar. From 2001 to 2013, as missionary in Cuba with the friars of the Marches Province, he was spiritual director of the Interdiocesan Seminary, professor of psychology and rector of postulants, as well as rector of the Saint Francis Church in La Habana. After returning to Italy, from 2013 to 2016 he served as secretary general for formation of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. He was elected as bishop of Ales-Terralba on 10 February 2016, received episcopal consecration and took possession of the see on the following 17 April. On 4 May 2019 he was promoted to the metropolitan archiepiscopal see of Oristano, remaining as apostolic administrator of Ales-Terralba. Within the Episcopal Conference of Sardinia he is delegate for the Protection of Minors and for Evangelisation of Peoples and Cooperation among Churches.