Titular Archdiocese of Ephesus
Ephesus ( Italian : Efeso ) is a titular archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to an earlier archbishopric in the eponymous city of Ephesus in what is now Turkey . Ephesus was the seat of the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Ephesus, which was identical to the Roman province of Asia .
Titular Archbishops of Ephesus | ||||
No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
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1 | Pierre de Villars | Coadjutor Archbishop of Vienne ( France ) | 1612 | January 18, 1626 |
Giacomo della Torre | November 9, 1646 | September 16, 1661 | ||
2 | Vitaliano Visconti | Curial Cardinal | August 11, 1664 | June 2, 1670 |
3 | Opizio Pallavicini | Apostolic Nuncio | February 27, 1669 | November 14, 1689 |
4th | Antonio Francesco Sanvitale | July 16, 1703 | May 6, 1709 | |
5 | Domenico Silvio Passionei | Apostolic Nuncio | July 16, 1721 | July 23, 1738 |
6th | Francesco Maria Garetto OFM | Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Shansi ( China ) | September 27, 1730 | January 8, 1738 |
7th | Antonio Eugenio Visconti | Apostolic Nuncio | January 28, 1760 | April 3, 1775 |
8th | Nicola Buschi | April 11, 1785 | August 11, 1800 | |
9 | Benedetto Sinibaldi | August 11, 1800 | April 1816 | |
10 | Paolo Leardi | Apostolic Nuncio | September 23, 1816 | December 31, 1823 |
11 | Giovanni Soglia Ceroni | Curia Archbishop | October 2, 1826 | February 18, 1839 |
12 | Lodovico Altieri | Curia Archbishop | July 11, 1836 | April 21, 1845 |
13 | Alessandro Asinari di Sanmarzano | January 19, 1846 | ||
14th | Francesco Folicaldi | March 12, 1877 | 1885 | |
15th | Tobias Kirby | 1885 | January 20, 1895 | |
16 | Sebastiano Martinelli OSA | Apostolic Delegate | August 18, 1896 | April 15, 1901 |
17th | Donato Raffaele Sbarretti Tazza | Curia Archbishop | December 16, 1901 | 4th December 1916 |
18th | Lorenzo Lauri | Apostolic Nuncio | January 5, 1917 | December 20, 1926 |
19th | Valerio Valeri | Curia Archbishop | October 18, 1927 | January 12, 1953 |
20th | Sebastiano Baggio | Apostolic Nuncio | June 30, 1953 | April 28, 1969 |
21st | Giovanni Enrico Boccella TOR | Archbishop emeritus of Izmir (Turkey) | 7th December 1978 | May 22, 1992 |