Titular Archdiocese of Nicosia

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Nicosia is a titular archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

It goes back to an earlier diocese of the ancient city of Nicosia in the Roman province of Cyprus in Cyprus .

Titular Archbishops of Nicosia
No. Surname Office from to
1 Raniero Felice Simonetti Apostolic Nuncio in Naples
Governor of Rome
June 14, 1728 May 15, 1747
2 Carlo Vittorio Amedeo delle Lanze August 11, 1747 April 12, 1773
3 Giuseppe Vincentini September 11, 1775
4th Giuseppe Rossi December 19, 1791
5 Antonio Fernando Echanove Zaldívar Abbot of San Ildefonso ( Spain ) October 2, 1818 March 13, 1826
6th Pietro Naselli CO Bishop emeritus of Piazza Armerina ( Italy ) July 13, 1840 December 16, 1862
7th Stephano Azarian Patriarchal Vicar of Cilicia August 14, 1877 4th August 1881
8th Elia Bianchi July 3, 1882
9 Henry O'Callaghan Bishop Emeritus of Hexham and Newcastle ( Great Britain ) October 1, 1889 October 10, 1904
10 Cesare Boccanera Bishop emeritus of Narni (Italy) December 11, 1905 1915
11 Francesco Cherubini Apostolic Internuntius
Apostolic Nuncio
December 9, 1915 April 12, 1934
12 Guglielmo Piani SDS Apostolic Delegate
Official
April 21, 1934 September 27, 1956
13 Aurelio Signora Prelate of Pompei (Italy) March 12, 1957 April 30, 1990

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