Titular Archdiocese of Rhodus
Rhodus ( Italian : Rodi ) is a titular archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church . It goes back to an earlier diocese on Rhodes , the main island of the Greek archipelago of the Dodecanese in the East Aegean , which belonged to the Roman province of Asia or insulae in late antiquity .
| Titular Bishops of Rhodus | ||||
| No. | Surname | Office | from | to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascanio Piccolomini | Coadjutor Archbishop of Siena ( Italy ) | July 3, 1579 | 1588 |
| 2 | Alfonso Gonzaga | March 17, 1621 | 1649 | |
| 3 | Karl Kaspar von der Leyen | Coadjutor Archbishop of Trier ( Germany ) | 4th July 1651 | February 7, 1652 |
| 4th | Francesco Caetani | September 1, 1652 | March 17, 1670 | |
| 5 | Lorenzo Gavotti , CR | Emeritus Bishop of Ventimiglia (Italy) | July 2, 1670 | August 9, 1679 |
| 6th | Franciscus Nicolini | September 10, 1685 | ||
| 7th | Giorgio Cornaro SMOM | Apostolic Nuncio | May 5, 1692 | August 26, 1697 |
| 8th | Giulio Piazza | Apostolic Nuncio | December 2, 1697 | September 13, 1706 |
| 9 | Alessandro Aldobrandini | Apostolic Nuncio | November 7, 1707 | September 3, 1731 |
| 10 | Raniero d'Elci | Apostolic Nuncio | November 22, 1730 | May 5, 1738 |
| 11 | Carlo Francesco Durini | June 22, 1739 | July 23, 1753 | |
| 12 | Nicolò Lercari | December 10, 1753 | March 15, 1757 | |
| 13 | Tommaso Maria Ghilini | Apostolic Nuncio | July 18, 1763 | July 20, 1778 |
| 14th | Giovanni Carmine Pellerano SMOM | Bishop Emeritus of Malta ( Malta ) | June 19, 1780 | April 18, 1783 |
| 15th | Antonio Dugnani | Apostolic Nuncio | April 11, 1785 | September 9, 1796 |
| 16 | Vincenzo Labini SMOM | Bishop of Malta (Malta) | March 3, 1797 | April 30, 1807 |
| 17th | Publio Maria Sant | Bishop of Malta (Malta) | November 17, 1847 | December 4, 1857 |
| 18th | Gaetano Pace-Forno , OSA | Bishop of Malta (Malta) | December 4, 1857 | July 22, 1874 |
| 19th | Carmelo Scicluna | Bishop of Malta (Malta) | March 15, 1875 | July 12, 1888 |
| 20th | Pietro Pace | Bishop of Malta (Malta) | February 11, 1889 | July 29, 1914 |
| 21st | Mauro Caruana , OSB | Bishop of Malta (Malta) | January 22, 1915 | March 29, 1928 |