Titular Archdiocese of Nicaea
Nicaea ( Italian : Nicea ) is a titular archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
It goes back to a lost bishopric in the ancient city of Nikaia in the Bithynia region in Asia Minor .
Titular Archbishops of Nicaea | ||||
No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
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1 | Giovanni di Prangins | Bishop emeritus of Aosta ( Italy ) | October 23, 1444 | May 7, 1446 |
2 | Melchor Miguel Carneiro Leitão SJ | Coadjutor Patriarch of Ethiopia | January 23, 1555 | June 29, 1577 |
3 | Juan Beltrán de Guevara | Bishop emeritus of Mazara del Vallo (Italy) | January 16, 1573 | |
4th | Vincenzo Quadrimano | Auxiliary Bishop in Ostia and Velletri (Italy) | August 12, 1592 | |
5 | Bernardino Piccoli | Coadjutor Bishop of Strongoli (Italy) | December 15, 1621 | October 2, 1627 |
6th | Diego Seco SJ | Coadjutor Patriarch of Ethiopia | December 19, 1622 | 4th July 1623 |
7th | Apolinar Almeida SJ | Coadjutor Patriarch of Ethiopia | March 22, 1627 | June 15, 1638 |
8th | Jacobus de La Haye OS Spirit | Apostolic Legate in Istanbul ( Turkey ) | March 3, 1653 | |
9 | Gasparo Carpegna | June 16, 1670 | December 22, 1670 | |
10 | Carlo Vaini | January 19, 1671 | May 15, 1679 | |
11 | Giovanni Giacomo Cavallerini | Apostolic Nuncio | June 25, 1692 | May 21, 1696 |
12 | Tommaso Ruffo | Apostolic Nuncio | April 7, 1698 | June 25, 1706 |
13 | Ferdinando Nuzzi | June 7, 1706 | March 30, 1716 | |
14th | Giuseppe Firrao | Apostolic Nuncio | September 2, 1714 | December 11, 1730 |
15th | Silvio Valenti Gonzaga | Pro-State Secretary | June 18, 1731 | September 16, 1740 |
16 | Alberico Archinto | September 30, 1739 | May 24, 1756 | |
17th | Antonio Maria Erba-Odescalchi | September 24, 1759 | November 19, 1759 | |
18th | Cesare Alberico Lucini | Apostolic Nuncio | January 28, 1760 | February 19, 1768 |
19th | Filippo Sanseverino | Bishop emeritus of Alife (Italy) | January 29, 1770 | April 4, 1776 |
20th | Jean-Siffrein Maury | April 24, 1792 | February 21, 1794 | |
21st | Pietro Gravina | Apostolic Nuncio | September 12, 1794 | March 8, 1816 |
22nd | Francesco Serra Casano | Apostolic Nuncio Coadjutor Archbishop of Capua (Italy) |
March 16, 1818 | July 26, 1826 |
23 | Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso | Apostolic Nuncio | April 9, 1827 | May 19, 1837 |
24 | Raffaele Fornari | Apostolic Nuncio | January 24, 1842 | September 30, 1850 |
25th | Carlo Sacconi | Apostolic Nuncio | May 2, 1851 | September 27, 1861 |
26th | Giuseppe Berardi | April 7, 1862 | March 13, 1868 | |
27 | Serafino Vannutelli |
Apostolic Delegate Apostolic Nuncio |
June 25, 1869 | March 14, 1887 |
28 | Luigi Galimberti | Apostolic Nuncio | May 23, 1887 | June 25, 1894 |
29 | Augusto Guidi | Curia Archbishop | May 18, 1894 | March 16, 1900 |
30th | Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta | President of the Pontifical Diplomatic Academy | April 19, 1900 | November 9, 1903 |
31 | Giovanni Tacci Porcelli | Archbishop of the Curia, Apostolic Nuncio, Apostolic Internuntius |
December 17, 1904 | June 13, 1921 |
32 | Giovanni Festa | Examiner of the Vicariate of Rome (Italy) | January 20, 1923 | April 18, 1930 |
33 | Giuseppe Pizzardo | President of the Pontifical Commission Pro Russia | April 22, 1930 | December 13, 1937 |
34 | Aldo Laghi | Apostolic Nuncio | August 28, 1938 | January 2, 1942 |
35 | Martin-Marie-Stanislas Gillet OP | September 30, 1946 | 3rd September 1951 | |
36 | Ilario Alcini | Apostolic visitor to the seminaries in Italy | October 27, 1951 | April 10, 1976 |