List of the bishops of Catania
The following people were bishops or archbishops of the diocese or archbishopric of Catania in Sicily in Italy :
Bishops
- Saint Birillus (around 42?)
- Holy Everio (264)
- Saint Sabino (8th century)
- Saint Leo (776)
- Theodor (8th century)
- Ansgerius (1092–1124)
- Mauritius (1124–1130?)
- John (1167–1169)
- Rogerius
- Walter of Pagliara (1207–1232)
- Martialis (14th century)
- Simone del Pozzo (14th century)
- ...
- Giovanni De Primis (1447-1449)
- Giuliano della Rovere (1473–1474)
- Francisco Desprats (1498–1500) (also Bishop of Astorga)
- Diego Ramírez de Guzmán (1500–1508)
- Jaime de Conchillos, O. de M. (1505-1512)
- Gaspar Ponz (1513-1520)
- Matthäus Schiner (1520–1522) administrator
- Pompeo Colonna (1523–1524) administrator
- Marino Ascanio Caracciolo (January 18, 1524 to July 24, 1524)
- Scipione Caracciolo (1524-1529)
- Marino Ascanio Caracciolo (1529–1530) (2nd time), then cardinal
- Ludovico Caracciolo (1530-1536)
- Nicola Maria Caracciolo (1537–1568)
- Antonio Faraone (1568–1572)
- Juan Orozco de Arce (1574–1576)
- Juan Corrionero (1589–1592)
- Gian Domenico Rebiba (1595–1604)
- Juan Ruiz Villoslada (1605-1609)
- Bonaventura Secusio , OFM (1609-1618)
- Juan Torres de Osorio (1619-1624)
- Innocenzo Massimo (1624-1633)
- Cardinal Camillo Astalli-Pamphilj (1661–1663)
- Michelangelo Bonadies (1665–1686)
- Andrea Riggio (1693-1717)
- Cardinal Juan Álvaro Cienfuegos Villazón , SJ (1721–1725)
- Raimundo Rubí , O. Cart. (1727–1729)
- Pietro Galletti (1729–1757)
- Salvatore Ventimiglia , CO (1757–1773)
- Corrado Maria Deodati de Moncada (1773-1813)
- Gabriel Maria Gravina , OSB (1816–1817)
- Domenico Orlando , OFM Conv. (1823-1839)
- Felice Regano (1839–1861)
Archbishops
- Sedis vacancy (1861–1867)
- Giuseppe Benedetto Cardinal Dusmet , OSB (1867-1894)
- Giuseppe Cardinal Francica-Nava de Bontifè (1895–1928)
- Emilio Ferrais (1928-1930)
- Carmelo Patané (1930–1952)
- Guido Luigi Bentivoglio , SOC (1952–1974)
- Domenico Picchinenna (1974–1988)
- Luigi Bommarito (1988-2000, then also Metropolitan)
Archbishops and Metropolitans
- Luigi Bommarito (2000-2002)
- Salvatore Gristina (2002–…)
literature
- Gaetano Zito: Catania , in: Gaetano Zito (ed.): Storia delle Chiese di Sicilia , Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2009, pp. 355–404, List of Bishops, pp. 396–399.