Titular diocese of Tricca

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Tricca also Tricale (or Tricala) ( Italian : Tricala ) is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .

Trikala , as the city is called today, is located at the western end of the Thessalian plain in Greece . Ancient evidence says that this place is considered the home of Aesculapius , the god of medicine . The castle of Trikala is not far from the Asklepios temple, it was built on remains of the Hellenistic era in Byzantine times, to which the bishopric goes back.

Titular Bishops of Tricale
No. Surname Office from to
1 Godefridus Yerwerd OSB Auxiliary Bishop in Osnabrück ( Germany ) later in Utrecht ( Netherlands ) February 13, 1471 January 1483
2 Heinrich Schodehoet OSA Auxiliary Bishop in Münster and Osnabrück (Germany) January 8, 1494 1515
3 Johannes Meler OSA Auxiliary Bishop in Münster and Osnabrück (Germany) January 18, 1518 1529
4th Konrad Ferdinand Geist von Wildegg Auxiliary Bishop in Konstanz (Germany) May 18, 1693 January 15, 1722
5 Dionigi Pieragostini June 24, 1729 May 7, 1732
6th José Francisco de San Buenaventura Martínez de Tejada y Díez de Velasco OFM Auxiliary Bishop in Santiago de Cuba ( Spanish East Indies ) September 3, 1732 August 23, 1745
7th Diego Martínez Garrido OS Bishop emeritus of Cartagena ( Viceroyalty of New Granada ) August 22, 1746 February 5, 1757
8th André Teixeira Palha Coadjutor Bishop of Faro ( Portugal ) December 16, 1782 December 5, 1783
9 Francisco Antonio Pablo Sieni Flannings OFMCap June 25, 1784 - September 10, 1787 Auxiliary Bishop in Santiago de Cuba
September 10, 1787 - November 23, 1793 Auxiliary Bishop in San Cristóbal de la Habana (Spanish East Indies) 		June 25, 1784 February 18, 1809
10 Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas
Titular Archbishop pro hac vice 		Archbishop Emeritus of Guatemala ( Guatemala ) May 9, 1805 July 17, 1810
11 Josephe-Adolphe Gandy MEP Apostolic Koadjutorvikar of Pondicherry and Cuddalore ( British India ) March 16, 1883 January 15, 1889
12 Coloman Belopotoczky Bishop of the Austrian Military Diocese ( Austria-Hungary ) July 22, 1890 December 15, 1914
13 Natale Serafino Bishop emeritus of Chiavari ( Kingdom of Italy ) 4th August 1917 September 2, 1924
14th Robert Constant Lagae OP Vicar Apostolic of Niangar ( Belgian Congo / Democratic Republic of the Congo ) December 18, 1924 May 10, 1966

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