Roman Catholic Diocese of Castro del Lazio
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Castro del Lazio was a residential bishopric from 600 to 1649 and is now a Latin Catholic titular see under the shortened name Castro.
History
The bishopric was founded in 600 AD under the name Bisenzio, the Italianized medieval name of the Ancient Etruscan city Visentium.In 680 it was renamed as Diocese of Castro del Lazio, also called Castrum in Tuscia.
On 31 August 1369, it lost territory to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montefiascone.
On 13 September 1649, it was suppressed and its territory used to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Acquapendente.
Bishops
- Bishop Rolando
- Ruggero Calcagnini, Dominican Order
- Angelo
- Ermanno
- Corrado da Montefiascone, O.P.
- Bernardo, previously Bishop of Numana
- Gaetano Baliganto
- Rufino, previously Bishop of Montemarano
- Pietro
- Giacomo, later Bishop of Nola
- Gregorio Bonfili, Augustinians
- Pietro, O.E.S.A.
- Giacomo, Friars Minor
- Stefano
- Paolo Guiducci
- Giovanni Cambaruti
- Angelo Gozzadini
- Giovanni
- Benedetto
- Giovanni
- Pietro Santo, O.E.S.A., previously Bishop of Skradin
- Angelo
- Marco Cobello
- Antonio, later Bishop of Civita Castellana e Orte
- Daniele da Forlì, O.F.M.
- Giacomo Romanesci, O.F.M.
- Michael da Viterbo
- Tito Veltri de Viterbo
- Giorgio Uberti
- Leone Leonici
- Francesco Boscheni
- Lodovico Magnasco di Santa Fiora, later Bishop of Assisi
- Girolamo Maccabei de Toscanella )
- Francesco Cittadini
- Celso Paci
- Lorenzo Celsi (bishop)
- Giovanni Ambrogio Caccia
- Alessandro Rossi (bishop of Parma), later Bishop of Parma
- Antonio Massa
- Ireneo Brasavola, O.F.M.
- Alessandro Carissimi
- Pompeo Balbani
- Alberto Giunti
- Cristoforo Pietro Antonio Giarda, B.
Titular see
The bishopric was nominally restored in 1698, under he shortened name Castro, or Castrum in Tuscia in Latin.- Titular Archbishop Edgard Aristide Maranta, Capuchin Friars Minor O.F.M. Cap.
- Titular Bishop Estanislao Esteban Karlic, as Auxiliary Bishop of Córdoba, later Coadjutor Archbishop of Paraná, then Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Paraná and succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Paraná, President of Episcopal Conference of Argentina, created Cardinal-Priest of Beata Maria Addolorata a piazza Buenos Aires
- Titular Bishop Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez, as Auxiliary Bishop of Abancay, later Auxiliary Bishop of Cusco, Auxiliary Bishop of Yauyos, succeeding as Bishop-Prelate of Yauyos, later Metropolitan Archbishop of Cusco
- Titular Bishop Rimantas Norvila
- Titular Bishop Patrick K. Lynch, Picpus Fathers, Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark