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Styles of Ottorino Pietro Alberti
Reference style	His Excellency The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Archbishop

Ottorino Pietro Alberti (17 December 1927 – 17 July 2012) was anItalianRoman Catholicarchbishop who served asArchbishop of Cagliari from 1987 to 2003.^[1]

Alberti was born into a prominent Family inNuoro in Sardinia. He firstly had a bachelor in Agriculture in Pisa an later studied atseminaries inPisa andRome; was than ordained a priest in Rome on 18 March 1956.

Alberti was appointed as director (rettore) ofSeminary inCagliari in 1971. In 1973 he was also appointed as secretary and professor atPontificia Università Lateranense.

In 1973 he was appointedArchbishop ofSpoleto andBishop ofNorcia, in the same years Alberti was appointed as member of theCongregation for the Causes of Saints.

In 1987 he was elected to lead the church ofSardinia, being appointedArchbishop ofCagliari, becoming President of the SardinianEpiscopal Conference.

Alberti retired for age limit the 20 June 2003, and come back to his hometown Nuoro, where he died July 2012.

Alberti was an historian who wrote several books, mainly about the history ofChristianity and theRoman Catholic Church in Sardinia.His works include:

• I vescovi sardi al Concilio Vaticano I, Rome, Pontificia università lateranense, 1963;
• La Sardegna nella storia dei concili, Rome, Pontificia università lateranense, 1964;
• Le relazioni triennali di Don Alfonso de Lorca, arcivescovo di Sassari, alla Sacra congregazione del concilio (1590-1600), Rome, Pontificia università lateranense, 1965;
• Problemi di origine inS. Ireneo, Rome, Pontificia università lateranense, 1966;
• Elementi di filosofia cristiana, Rome, Centro Ut unum sint, 1967-1968;
• Il dizionario dei concili, Rome, Pontificia università lateranense, 1968;
• La scienza nel pensiero diTeilhard de Chardin, Rome, Pontificia università lateranense, 1969;
• Scritti di storia civile e religiosa della Sardegna, introduced byGiancarlo Sorgia, Cagliari, Della Torre, 1994,ISBN 88-7343-257-3;
• La diocesi di Galtellì dall'unione a Cagliari (1495) alla fine del secolo XVI, Sassari, 2D editrice mediterranea, 2 volumes, 1993-1994;
• Presentazione a Domenico Filia,La Sardegna cristiana, riproduzione dell'edizione del 1909–1929, Sassari, Delfino, 1995, 3 volumes,ISBN 88-7138-122-X;
• Presentazione a La Sacra Bibbia. Tradotta inlingua sarda da Salvatore Ruju, traduzione di Salvatore Ruju, prefazione diMassimo Pittau, Nuoro, Solinas, 2003; new editionSa Bibbia sacra. Edissione uffissiale de sa CEI, Cufferenzia de sos piscamos italianos; bortada in limba sarda dae Bobore Ruju, Cagliari, L'unione sarda, 5 volumes, 2006.

• http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/balbop.html Catholic-Hierarchy.org Profile^{[self-published]}

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