The Latin or Roman Catholic Archbishopric of Larissa is a titular see of the Catholic Church. It was established briefly as a residential episcopal see at Larissa, Thessaly, during the first decades of the Frankokratia period in place of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Larissa. Following the recovery of Larissa by the Greeks, the see became titular. The see has been vacant since the death of its last incumbent, Giuseppe Mojoli, in 1980.

History

Christianity penetrated early to Larissa, though its first bishop is recorded only in 325 at the Council of Nicaea. Following the Fourth Crusade and Thessaly's incorporation into the Kingdom of Thessalonica, a Roman Catholic archbishop was installed in the place of the previous Greek Orthodox occupant.

Latin Archbishopric of Larissa

The city was soon recovered by the Greek Despotate of Epirus, however, possibly as early as 1212 and the Greek Orthodox metropolitan restored. Pope Honorius III later conferred the see of Thermopylae to the exiled Latin archbishop.

Latin Archbishopric of Larissa

Titular bishops

Honore Visconti, 1630

Antonio Pignatelli del Rastrello, later became Pope Innocent XII, 1652

Johann Hugo von Orsbeck, 1672

Baldassare Cardinal Cenci (Sr.), 1691

Francesco Acquaviva d’Aragona, 1697

Giovanni Battista Anguisciola, 1706

Luigi Carafa (Jr.), 1713

Troiano Acquaviva d’Aragona, 1930

Giovanni Saverio di Leoni, 1733

Bernardo Froilán Saavedra Sanjurjo, 1736

Pedro Clemente de Aróstegui, 1742

Blasius Paoli, 1750

Francesco Saverio Passari, 1786

Salvatore Maria Caccamo, O.S.A., 1815

Francesco Canali, 1827

Giuseppe Novak, 1843

François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, 1875

Giovanni Rebello Cardoso de Menezes, 1887

Agostino Ciasca, O.S.A., 1891

Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, O.F.M., 1899

Carlo Montagnini, 1913

Antonio Maria Grasselli, O.F.M.Conv., 1913

Felipe Arginzonis y Astobiza, O.C.D., 1918

Domenico Spolverini, 1933

José Horacio Campillo Infante, 1939

Antonio Giordani, 1956

Giuseppe Mojoli, 1960

See also

List of Catholic titular sees

Notes

Sources

Catholic titular sees in Europe

Medieval Thessaly

Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Greece

Larissa

History of Larissa

Kingdom of Thessalonica

Larissa

Frankokratia

Latin Archbishopric of Larissa