Iconium (Roman Catholic titular see)

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The city of Iconium in Lycaonia has been a Christian bishopric since the 1st century under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. In 1662, a Roman Catholic titular archbishopric (Archidioecesis Iconiensis) was established, although the area had never actually been Catholic in profession.

List of titular bishops[]

Cardinal Pietro Caprano.

• Joannes Mattaeus Caryophyllis (8 Aug 1622 Appointed - 23 May 1633)
• Giulio Caracciolo, (24 Aug 1671 - )
• (26 Jun 1724 Appointed - 18 Apr 1746)
• (1 Apr 1748 Appointed - 29 Jun 1754)
• (17 Feb 1755 - 6 Feb 1764)
• (1 Dec 1766 Appointed - 21 Feb 1794)
• (1 Jun 1795 - 28 May 1804)
• (8 Mar 1816 - 21 May 1829)
• Jean-Baptiste Auvergne (29 Mar 1833 - 7 Sep 1836)
• (28 Feb 1837 - 15 Nov 1838)
• Johannes von Geissel (23 May 1842 - 19 Oct 1845)
• (21 Sep 1846 - 4 Aug 1850 )
• , (17 Feb 1851 - 9 Sep 1862)
• , (17 May 1867 - 4 Oct 1897)
• (14 Dec 1899 - 20 Apr 1903 Died)
• (22 Jun 1903 - 23 Jan 1918 Died)
• (11 Jun 1918 - 3 Sep 1937)
• Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant (25 Jun 1937 Appointed - 18 Feb 1946)
• , (22 Sep 1937 Appointed - 11 Nov 1950)
• Sergio Pignedoli (22 Dec 1950 - 5 Mar 1973)

References[]

Sources[]

• Cheney, David M. "Iconium (Titular See)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)
• Chow, Gabriel. "Titular Metropolitan See of Iconium (Turkey)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)
• Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 451