Titular diocese of Lilybaeum

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Lilybaeum ( Italian : Lilibeo ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to an ancient bishopric in the city of Marsala , which is located on the west coast of Sicily . The diocese had perished during the Saracen rule over Sicily at the beginning of the 10th century and was not reestablished under the Normans, as Roger I chose Mazara as the seat of the western Sicilian diocese, whose bishops in the 12th century temporarily also the title of one episcopus Lilibetanus .

Titular Bishops of Lilybaeum
No. Surname Office from to
1 Henrique Hector Golland Trindade OFM
Titular Archbishop pro hac vice 		Archbishop Emeritus of Botucatu ( Brazil ) March 27, 1968 March 16, 1971
2 Nicola Cavanna Coadjutor Bishop of Asti ( Italy ) June 21, 1971 August 1, 1977
3 Carlos Alberto Nicolini Auxiliary Bishop in Salto ( Uruguay ) October 28, 1977 December 29, 1984
4th Jesús Gervasio Pérez Rodríguez OFM Auxiliary Bishop in Sucre ( Bolivia ) June 14, 1985 November 6, 1989
5 Giuseppe Leanza
Titular Archbishop pro hac vice 		Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland 3rd July 1990

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  1. ↑ Dieter Girgensohn , Italia Pontificia sive Repertorium privilegiorum et litterarum a Romanis pontificibus ante annum MCLXXXXVIII Italiae ecclesiis, monasteriis, civitatibus singulisque personis concessorum , t. X: Calabria - insulae . Zurich 1975, pp. 250-258

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