 On 21 November 2015, he was consecrated a bishop in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence by Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, with Bishops Mario Meini and Guglielmo Borghetti as co-consecrators (both of whom were his immediate predecessors as Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello).He took as his episcopal motto "," which translates from Latin as "In Love and Joy.