Titular diocese of Messene

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Messene is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to an earlier diocese of the ancient city of Messene in western Messenia in Greece , which was assigned to the ecclesiastical province of Patrassus .

Titular Bishops of Messene
No. Surname Office from to
1 Joannes Baptist Belland Coadjutor Bishop of Malacca ( Singapore ) August 29, 1740
2 John Baptiste Miège SJ Apostolic Vicar of Indian Territory east of the Rocky Mountains ( USA ) July 23, 1850 July 21, 1884
3 Luigi Bonetti Coadjutor Bishop of Montalto ( Italy ) January 15, 1886 April 3, 1887
4th Leo Michael Haid OSB Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina
Abbot of Belmont-Mary Help of Christians (USA)
February 4, 1888 July 24, 1924
5 Ettore Lodi Auxiliary Bishop in Bologna (Italy) March 6, 1925 July 6, 1935
6th Ettore Castelli Curia Bishop December 16, 1935 1943
7th Giuseppe Battaglia Coadjutor Bishop of Faenza (Italy) August 21, 1943 December 17, 1944
8th Jean-Julien Weber PSS Coadjutor Bishop of Strasbourg ( France ) June 1, 1945 August 29, 1945
9 Máximo Yurramendi Alcáin Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Rodrigo ( Spain ) November 25, 1945 January 25, 1949
10 Giacomo Cannonero Coadjutor Bishop of Asti (Italy) March 16, 1950 November 11, 1952
11 Francisco Rendeiro OP Coadjutor Bishop of Faro (Italy) December 22, 1952 3rd December 1955
12 Fiorenzo Angelini
since February 16, 1985 Titular Archbishop pro hac vice
Responsible for hospital pastoral care in Rome
Auxiliary Bishop in Rome
Archbishop of Curia
June 27, 1956 June 28, 1991

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