Bishop of Biella
He was ordained a priest on September 24, 1994. He served as Head of the Diocesan Vocations Center and the Diocesan Youth Ministry Service, and as Vice-Rector of the diocesan seminary from 1996 to 1997; Parish Administrator of the San Giovanni Battista community in Castellamonte from 1997 to 2001; Defender of the Bond at the Piedmontese Regional Ecclesiastical Tribunal from 1997 to 1999; Judge at the Piedmontese Regional Ecclesiastical Tribunal from 1999 to 2015; and Rector of the diocesan seminary of Ivrea from 2001 to 2018. Since 2014, he has also served as Parish Priest of Ivrea Cathedral and Episcopal Vicar for Consecrated Life, and since 2018, as Episcopal Chancellor.