Roman Catholic Diocese of Castro del Lazio

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Castro del Lazio was a residential bishopric from 600 to 1649 and is now a Latin Catholic titular see under the shortened name Castro.^[1][2][3]

History

The bishopric was founded in 600 AD under the name Bisenzio (and Latin Bisentium), the Italianized medieval name of the Ancient Etruscan city Visentium.

In 680 it was renamed as Diocese of Castro del Lazio, also called Castrum in Tuscia.

On 31 August 1369, it lost territory to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montefiascone.

On 13 September 1649, it was suppressed and its territory used to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Acquapendente.

Suffragan Bishops

(incomplete : first centuries not available)

• Bishop Rolando (1206? – 1207?)
• Ruggero Calcagnini, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1244? – 1253?)
• Angelo (1274 – ?)
• Ermanno (1278.07.18 – ?)
• Corrado da Montefiascone, O.P. (? – death 1285?)
• Bernardo (1285.04.24 – ?), previously Bishop of Numana (1280.05.15 – 1285.04.24)
• Gaetano Baliganto (? – 1296?)
• Rufino (1296.08.09 – ?), previously Bishop of Montemarano (1290? – 1296.08.09)
• Pietro (1308.04.07 – death 1309)
• Giacomo (1309.04.11 – 1311.05.14), later Bishop of Nola (Italy) (1311.05.14 – ?)
• Gregorio Bonfili, Augustinians (O.E.S.A.) (1311.05.09 – death 1321)
• Pietro, O.E.S.A. (1322.01.08 – ?)
• Giacomo, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1331.01.30 – 1352)
• Stefano (1353.01.18 – 1363.01.01)
• Paolo Guiducci (1364.04.22 – ?)
• Giovanni Cambaruti (1373.07.18 – 1377 deposed)
• Angelo Gozzadini (1380 – death1383)
• Giovanni (1384 – ?)
• Benedetto (1394.04.11 – death 1395)
• (vacancy?)
• Giovanni (1401? – ?)
• Pietro, O.E.S.A. (1420.01.15 – ?), previously Bishop of Skradin (1410.07.30 – 1420.01.15)
• Angelo (1429.05.09 – death 1437)
• Marco Cobello (1437.12.11 – ?)
• Antonio (1463.03.31 – 1467.10.30), later Bishop of Civita Castellana e Orte (Italy) (1467.10.30 – death 1473.10.10)
• Daniele da Forlì, O.F.M. (1467.10.30 – ?)
• Giacomo Romanesci, O.F.M. (1468.05.04 – ?)
• Michele da Viterbo (1469.08.18 – 1478?)
• Tito Veltri (1480.11.10 – 1511.04.30)
• Giorgio Uberti (1518.04.12 – 1528)
• Leone Leonici (1529.08.20 – 1532)
• Francesco Boscheni (1532.04.17 – death 1535)
• Ludovico Magnaschi di Santa Fiora (1535.10.20 – 1543.07.06), later Bishop of Assisi (Italy) (1543.07.06 – 1552)
• Girolamo Maccabei de Toscanella (1543.07.06 – 1568))^[4]
• Francesco Cittadini (1568.11.19 – 1581.01 deposed)
• Celso Paci (1581.01.13 – death 1591.05.07)
• Lorenzo Celsi (bishop) (1591.07.19 – death 1603)^[5]
• Giovanni Ambrogio Caccia (1603.02.26 – 1611)
• Alessandro Rossi (1611.01.31 – death 1614.07.09), later Bishop of Parma (Italy) (1614.07.09 – 1615.03.24)
• Antonio Massa (1614.11.24 – death 1616.10.31)
• Ireneo Brassavola, O.F.M. (1617.01.09 – death 1621)
• Alessandro Carissimi (1621.12.15 – death 1631.09)
• Pompeo Balbani (1632.01.19 – death 1639)
• Alberto Giunti (1640.09.10 – death 1648)
• Cristoforo Giarda, Barnabites (1648.05.18 – death 1649.03.18)

Titular see

The bishopric was nominally restored in 1698, under he shortened name Castro, or Castrum in Tuscia in Latin.

It has had the following incumbents either of the lowest (episcopal) or intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks :

• Titular Archbishop Edgard Aristide Maranta, Capuchin Friars Minor O.F.M. Cap. (1968.12.19 – 1975.01.29)
• Titular Bishop Estanislao Esteban Karlic (1977.06.06 – 1983.01.19), as Auxiliary Bishop of Córdoba (Argentina) (1977.06.06 – 1983.01.19), later Coadjutor Archbishop of Paraná (Argentina) (1983.01.19 – 1986.04.01), then Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Paraná (1983.01.19 – 1986.04.01) and succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Paraná (Argentina) (1986.04.01 – 2003.04.29), President of Episcopal Conference of Argentina (1996 – 2002), created Cardinal-Priest of Beata Maria Addolorata a piazza Buenos Aires (2007.11.24 [2008.02.02] – ...)
• Titular Bishop Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez (1983.08.18 – 1997.03.15), as Auxiliary Bishop of Abancay (Peru) (1983.08.18 – 1986.10.18), later Auxiliary Bishop of Cusco (Peru) (1986.10.18 – 1991.12.04), Auxiliary Bishop of Yauyos (Peru) (1991.12.04 – 1997.03.15), succeeding as Bishop-Prelate of Yauyos (Peru) (1997.03.15 – 2003.11.29), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Cusco (Peru) (2003.11.29 – 2014.10.28)
• Titular Bishop Rimantas Norvila (1997.05.28 – 2002.01.05)
• Titular Bishop Patrick K. Lynch, Picpus Fathers (SS.CC.) (2005.12.28 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark (London, England)

Source and External links

1. "Diocese of Castro (del Lazio)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
2. "Titular Episcopal See of Castro" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
3. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 863
4. "Bishop Girolamo Maccabei de Toscanella" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
5. "Bishop Lorenzo Celsi" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016

• GigaCatholic, with incumbent biography links