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Titular bishopric of Ankara, Turkey
The Archdiocese of Ancyra (
Latin : Archidioecesis Ancyrana) is a suppressed
titular see of the
Roman Catholic Church .
[1]
[2] It was established in the 17th century as the Catholic counterpart to the
Orthodox residential see, the
Metropolis of Ancyra ,
[3]
[4] which existed until the early 20th century at
Ankara , in
Turkey . The see has been vacant since 24 May 1976.
Titular bishops
Cesare Nardi, (1 July 1622 - 1633 deceased)
Fernand Palma d'Artois ,(17 September 1696 - 4 January 1700)
Raimondo Gallani, (January 19, 1708 - March 23, 1722)
Giusto Fontanini (September 5, 1725 - April 17, 1736)
Gaetano Calvani (November 20, 1747 - 1757)
Angelo Maria Durini (22 December 1766 - 28 April 1796 )
Giovanni Marchetti (September 26, 1814 - November 15, 1829)
Mariano Báguena Varona (September 30, 1831 - July 15, 1837)
Stefano Scerra (April 10, 1851 - January 20, 1859)
Vincenzo Spaccapietra, (12 September 1859 - April 8, 1862)
Giacomo Cattani (March 16, 1868 - September 19, 1879)
Fidel Sutter, (August 2, 1881 - August 30, 1883)
Giovanni Cirino (November 8, 1884 - May 12, 1896)
Giulio Vaccaro (November 30, 1896 - March 24, 1898)
Giacomo Merizzi (28 November 1898 - August 21, 1902 )
Giulio Tonti (August 23, 1902 - December 6, 1915)
Pellegrino Francesco Stagni, (January 1, 1916 - September 23, 1918)
Michele Zezza (July 3, 1919 - April 4, 1923)
Oreste Giorgi (April 26, 1924 - April 27, 1924)
Gaetano Cicognani (January 11, 1925 - January 12, 1953)
Opilio Rossi (21 November 1953 - May 24, 1976)
References
^
"Ancyra (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]" .
^
Gaetano Moroni ,
Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica ,
vol. 2 , pp. 41–43.
^ C. Karalevsky, v. Ancyre - Métropole grecque , in
Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques , vol. II, Paris 1914, col. 1538-1543.
^
Michel Le Quien ,
Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus , (
Paris , 1740), vol.I, coll. 455-474.