Archdiocese of Nicosia

The Latin Catholic archdiocese of Nicosia was created during the Crusades (1095–1487) in Cyprus; later becoming titular. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia 31 Latin archbishops served beginning in 1196, shortly after the conquest of Cyprus by Richard I of England, to 1502.

List of archbishops

Resident

• 1196–1202 Alan
• 1206–1210/11 Thierry
• 1211 Durand
• 1217–1250 Eustorge de Montaigu
• 1251–1261 Hugh of Fagiano
• 1262 Giovanni Colonna
• 1267 Giles
• 1268 Jean d'Angoulême
• 1270–1273 Bertrand Bernardi
• 1278–1286 Ranulf
• 1280s Raphael
• 1288–1296 John of Ancona
• 1296–1303 Gérard de Langres
• 1303–? Henri de Gibelet (apostolic administrator)
• 1306–? Tommaso de Muro (apostolic administrator)
• 1308–? Pierre Erlant (apostolic administrator)
• 1311–? Pierre de Brie (apostolic administrator)

• 1312–1332 Giovanni Conti
• 1332–1342
• 1344–1361
• 1361–1376 Raymond of Pradella
• 1376–1382 Béranger Grégoire
• During the Western Schism:

• 1421–1442 Hugues Lancelot de Lusignan
• 1442–1447 Galesius of Montolif
• 1447 Giovanni Moreli
• 1447–1451 Andrew of Rhodes
• 1456–1457 James of Cyprus (elect)
• 1456–1463 Isidore of Kiev (apostolic administrator)
• 1467–1469 Nicola Guglielmo Goner
• 1471–1476 Louis Fenollet
• 1476 Giovanni Francesco Brusato
• 1477–1438/1434 Vittore Marcello
• 1484–1495 Benedetto Superanzio (or Soranzo)
• 1495 Domenico Grimani (apostolic administrator)
• 1495–1502 Sebastiano Priuli
• 1502–1524
• 1524–1552 Livio Podocathor
• 1552–1557 Cesare Podocathor
• 1560–1586 Filippo Mocenigo

Titular

• 1728–1747 Raniero Felice Simonetti
• 1747–1773 Carlo Vittorio Amedeo delle Lanze
• 1775–1779 Giuseppe Vincentini
• 1791–1797 Giuseppe Rossi
• 1818–1826 Antonio Fernando Echanove Zaldívar
• 1828–1839 Filippo Maria Albertino Bellenghi
• 1832–1832 Giovanni Niccolò Tanara, became Archbishop of Urbino
• 1840–1862 Pietro Naselli
• 1877–1881 Stephen Petros X Azarian, became Patriarch of Cilicia
• 1882–1889 Elia Bianchi
• 1889–1904 Henry O'Callaghan
• 1905–1915 Cesare Boccanera
• 1915–1934 Francesco Cherubini
• 1934–1956 Guglielmo Piani
• 1957–1990 Aurelio Signora.

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