Diocese of Famagusta
The Diocese of Famagusta was a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church. Its episcopal see was the city of Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus during crusader rule, and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
- After to the seventh century conquest of Cyprus by the Islamic Arabs, the Greek Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salamina-Costanza transferred its see to Famagosta, until the Catholic crusaders conquered Cyprus in 1191, and relegated the Greek Metropolitanate to a marginal part, confining it to Carpasia.
- The Latin rite see was erected in 1196 with Pope Celestinus III's consent as Diocese of Famagosta / Famagosta antea Arsinoë in ins. Cypri . as a suffragan of the Latin Catholic Archdiocese of Nicosia
- It was suppressed in 1571 after the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus in 1570, its Cypriot territory being reassigned to Titular Patriarchal See of Jerusalem, but immediately transformed as Titular See of Famagosta / Famagosta antea Arsinoë in ins. Cypri ). Its former cathedral, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, was transformed into the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
- In 1933 it was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Famagusta / Famagustan
List of bishops
Residential bishops
- Caesarius of Alagno, transferred to the archdiocese of Salerno
- A.
- George
- Stephen of Mezel
- Velasco, Order of Friars Minor, transferred to the diocese of Guarda
- Bertrand
- * John, elect, never consecrated
- Paganus
- William
- Matthew, died in office
- * Bernard, O.S.B., apostolic administrator
- Mancellus, O.P.
- Guy
- Baldwin, died in office
- Mark, O.P., died in office
- Itier of Nabinaux = Iterio di Nabinal, Order of Friars Minor ; previously Bishop of Limassol
- Leodegar of Nabinaux, died in office
- Arnaud, transferred to the diocese of Lombez
- Francesco Rafardi, O.F.M., elect, never consecrated, transferred to the diocese of Segorbe
- * James, elect, died before consecrated
- Goffredo
- Rainaldo
- Bertrando d'Alagno, transferred to the diocese of Gubbio
- Raffaele
- canonical Pietro Marinaco, O.F.M., previously Anti-bishop of Diocese of Sospel, obedient to the schismatic Papacy of Avignon
- Luchino, died in office
- Luciano Lercaro, died in office
- Pietro, O.F.M., died in office
- * Giovanni di Montenegro, O.F.M., anti-bishop, died in office
- Gioachino Torselli, Servite Order, died in office
- Nicola di Tenda, Dominican Order, died in office
- Giacomo Guastandenghi, O.P., died in office
- Giovanni, O.S.B., died in office
- Agostino, O.Cist., died in office
- Domenico Michiel, O.P., died in office
- Pietro, O.Carm., died in office
- Francesco de Pernisiis de Saona, O.F.M., died in office
- Pietro Milite
- Francesco Marcelli, transferred to the diocese of Traù
- Alvise Cippico
- Marco Cornaro, also Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Verona ; previously created Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Portico ; later Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, transferred Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Via Lata, Bishop of Padova, Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Nardò, Archpriest of Papal Basilica of St. Peter in Rome, Protodeacon of Sacred College of Cardinals, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, promoted Cardinal-Priest of San Marco, promoted Cardinal-Bishop of Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano, transferred Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
- Mattia Ugoni
- Gianfrancesco Ugoni
- Filippo Bona
- Vittore de Franceschi
- * ?Coadjutor Bishop Gerolamo Ragazzoni, no titular see; next transferred, due to the Ottoman conquest in 1571, Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Kisamos, Bishop of Novara, Bishop of Bergamo, also papal diplomat : Apostolic Nuncio to France.
Titular bishops
- Titular Archbishop: Giuseppe Schiavini
- Domenico Bernareggi
- Ettore Castelli
- Paolo Castiglioni
- Giovanni Mauri
- Federico Domenico Sala
- Angelo Maria Meraviglia Mantegazza
- Biagio Pisani
- Carlo Caccia Dominioni
- Federico Manfredini
- Guilelmus Zerbi
- Giovanni Martino Bernardoni Baccolo
- Giovanni Battista Santonini
- Franciscus Condulmer
- Alessandro Pappafava
- Alvise Maria Gabrieli
- Giovanni Francesco Mora, Oratorians
- Sergio Pola
- Bishop-elect Vincenzo Bonifacio
- Giacomo Vianoli
- Titular Archbishop: Gerolamo Gradenigo
- Vittore Capello
- Germanico Mantica
- Pietro Valier
- Alberto Valier