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After completing graduate studies in Rome from 1980-83, he became vicar for administration/co-chancellor for the Providence Diocese (1983-91). In 1992 and also from 2000- 05 he served as secretary to the apostolic nuncio in Washington, D.C.
He also served as vicar general/moderator of the curia for the Diocese of Providence (1992-97) and pastor of St. Sebastian Parish in Providence (1997-2000).
Bishop Salvatore R. Matano’s coat of arms.
On March 3, 2005, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Burlington.
He was ordained to the episcopacy on April 19 of that year and became bishop of Burlington on Nov. 9, 2005, upon the retirement of Bishop Kenneth A. Angell.
The Bishops of the Diocese of
Rochester
Bishop Salvatore R. Matano addresses students at Siena Catholic Academy during the homily of an Ash Wednesday Mass at Brighton’s St. Thomas More Church March 1, 2017.
Bishop Salvatore R. Matano sits next to Sheikh Ismet Akcin, Imam of the Islamic Center of Rochester, during a visit to
the center on Dec. 11, 2014.
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