Titular diocese of Samos
Samos ( Italian : Samo ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to an earlier bishopric on the island of Samos in the eastern Aegean , which belonged to the Roman province of Insulae in late antiquity . The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Rhodes .
| Titular Bishops of Samos | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pierre-Herman Dosquet PSS |
Auxiliary Bishop in Québec Coadjutor Bishop of Québec ( Canada ) |
November 26, 1727 | September 12, 1733 |
| 2 | Théodore-Augustin Forcade MEP | Vicar Apostolic of Japan ( Japan ) | March 27, 1846 | September 12, 1853 |
| 3 | Giovanni Filiberto Deppen | Auxiliary Bishop in 's-Hertogenbosch ( Netherlands ) | November 15, 1853 | |
| 4th | Nicola de Martino | Bishop emeritus of Venosa ( Italy ) | July 15, 1878 | May 11, 1881 |
| 5 | Benedetto Mariani | Auxiliary Bishop in Sabina-Farfa (Italy) | 4th August 1881 | |
| 6th |
Giulio Tonti Titular Archbishop pro hac vice |
Apostolic Delegate Apostolic Administrator of Port-au-Prince ( Haiti ) |
July 11, 1892 | July 15, 1893 |
| 7th | Angelo Maria Meraviglia Mantegazza | Auxiliary Bishop in Milan (Italy) | May 21, 1894 | April 24, 1897 |
| 8th | Karol Antoni Niedziałkowski | Auxiliary Bishop in Minsk-Mahiljou ( Belarus ) | July 21, 1897 | April 15, 1901 |
| 9 | Thomas James Conaty | Rector of the Catholic University of America ( USA ) | August 21, 1901 | March 27, 1903 |
| 10 | Georg Wuschanski | Apostolic Administrator of Upper Lusatia Apostolic Vicar of the Saxon Hereditary Lands in Dresden ( Germany ) |
February 13, 1904 | December 28, 1905 |
| 11 | Pierre-Joseph Geay | Bishop emeritus of Laval ( France ) | June 10, 1906 | November 14, 1919 |
| 12 | Giuseppe Lagumina | Auxiliary Bishop in Palermo (Italy) | December 16, 1920 | July 15, 1929 |
| 13 | Vincenzo Migliorelli | Bishop emeritus of San Severino-Treia (Italy) | February 27, 1930 | February 24, 1939 |
| 14th | Albert Lewis Fletcher | Auxiliary Bishop in Little Rock (USA) | December 11, 1939 | December 7, 1946 |
| 15th |
Antonin Alois Weber Titular Archbishop pro hac vice |
emeritus Bishop of Leitmeritz ( Czechoslovakia ) | March 10, 1947 | September 12, 1948 |
| 16 | Matteo Guido Sperandeo | Auxiliary Bishop in Nola (Italy) | May 28, 1949 | February 23, 1952 |
| 17th | Giuseppe Olivotti | Auxiliary Bishop in Venice (Italy) | February 10, 1957 | March 9, 1974 |