Antioco Piseddu

Antioco Piseddu (17 September 1936 – 8 June 2025) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop.

His Excellency Antioco Piseddu
Bishop Emeritus of Lanusei
Archdiocese	Cagliari
Diocese	Lanusei
Appointed	29 September 1981
Term ended	31 January 2014
Predecessor	Salvatore Delogu
Successor	Antonio Mura
Orders
Ordination	29 June 1960 by Paolo Botto
Consecration	8 November 1981 by Sebastiano Baggio
Personal details
Born	(1936-09-16)16 September 1936 Senorbì, Italy
Died	8 June 2025(2025-06-08) (aged 88) Cagliari, Italy
Motto	In simplicate cordis
Coat of arms

Styles of Antioco Piseddu
Reference style	His Excellency The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

Biography

Piseddu was born in Senorbì on 17 September 1936, and was ordained a priest by Archbishop Paolo Botto for the archdiocese of Cagliari on 29 June 1960.^[1][2]

He was one of the bishops who celebrated the Tridentine Mass after the liturgical reform: on Sunday, 13 September 2021, a prelatic Mass and Sunday, 20 June 2021, a pontifical Mass at the faldistorium, both preceded by the administration of the sacrament of confirmation, in the personal parish of Santa Croce in Cagliari.^[3][4]

Piseddu died after a short illness in Cagliari, on 8 June 2025, at the age of 88.^[5][6]