Latin Catholic 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^[1] 31 Latin archbishops served beginning in 1196, shortly after the conquest of Cyprus by Richard I of England, to 1502.

The Selimiye Mosque was formerly the cathedral of the Holy Wisdom

List of archbishops

Resident

• 1196–1202 Alan
• 1206–1210/11 Thierry
• 1211 Durand
• 1217–1250 Eustorge de Montaigu^[2]
• 1251–1261 Ugo di Fagiano^[3]
• 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 Élie de Nabinal [fr]^[3][4]
• 1344–1361 Philippe de Chambarlhac [fr]
• 1361–1376 Raymond of Pradella
• 1376–1382 Béranger Grégoire
• During the Western Schism:

• Avignon obedience

• 1383–1406 Andrea Michelis

1411–1421 Hugh of Lusignan (apostolic administrator)

• Roman obedience

• 1382/3–c. 1395 Luchino
• 1395–1402 Corrado Caraccioli [it]
• 1402–1412 Stefano da Carrara [it]

• 1421–1442 Hugh of Lusignan
• 1442–1447 Galesius of Montolif^[5]
• 1447 Giovanni Moreli
• 1447–1451 Andreas Chrysoberges^[3]
• 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
• 1477–1438/4 Vittore Marcello
• 1484–1495 Benedetto Superanzio (or Soranzo)

1495 Domenico Grimani (apostolic administrator)

• 1495–1502 Sebastiano Priuli
• 1502–1524 Aldobrandino Orsini [it]
• 1524–1552 Livio Podocathor
• 1552–1557 Cesare Podocathor
• 1560–1586 Filippo Mocenigo

Titular

• 1728–1747 Raniero Felice Simonetti^[6]
• 1747–1773 Carlo Vittorio Amedeo delle Lanze^[7]
• 1775–1779 Giuseppe Vincentini
• 1791–1797 Giuseppe Rossi
• 1818–1826 Antonio Fernando Echanove Zaldívar^[8]
• 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^[9]
• 1934–1956 Guglielmo Piani^[10]
• 1957–1990 Aurelio Signora.^[11]